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CMICAGO  THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY, 

MAttttOND  LIBRARY. 

-IJ  WARREN  AVF.NUE,  -  -  CHICAGO. 


Nov.  19,  1897 

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a  sort  of  continuation  to  the  former,  as  it  gives  coin- 
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QUARTER  CENTENNIAL 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH 


PUBLISHED  BY  THE  BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS. 


CHICAGO 

JAMESON  &  MORSE,  BOCK  AND  JOB  PRINTERS. 
1879. 


CONTENTS. 


I.     PLANS  FOR  THEOLOGICAL  STUDY  IN  WESTERN  COLLEGES, 

II.     BEGINNINGS,     -  7 

III.  ORGANIZATION,  12 

IV.  ACTION  OF  GENERAL  ASSOCIATIONS,  17 
V.     STRUGGLES  OF  PREPARATION,                                                             -       20 

VI.     OPENING  OF  THE  SEMINARY,  24 

VII.     LOCATION,  26 

VIII.     BUILDINGS,  29 

IX.    LIBRARY,  31 

X.     TRIENNIAL  CONVENTIONS, 

XI.    PROPOSED  UNION  WITH  OBERLIN,  :u 

XII.     TREASURERS,  AGENTS,  AND  GENERAL  FUNDS,  3t; 

XIII.  ENDOWMENTS,  40 

XIV.  OUT  OF  THE  FIRE,  45 
XV.     FACULTY  AND  STUDENTS, 

XVI.     CONCLUSION,  :>° 

QUARTER  CENTENNIAL  FUND,  53 

CHARTER  OF  THE  SEMINARY,  •"1-1 

Al.IMNI    OF   THE    SEMINARY,  »'l 


STATEMENT. 


By  the  "Great  Fire"  in  Chicago,  October,  1871,  there 
were  lost  the  Records  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the 
Chicago  Theological  Seminary,  also  the  Records  of  their 
Executive  Committee,  the  official  Reports  of  the  Treas- 
urer and  Agent,  as  well  as  many  other  important  docu- 
ments. In  consequence  only  a  meager  History  of  the 
Seminary  did  the  Committee,  appointed  for  that  purpose, 
count  themselves  able  to  make. 

They  have,  however,  been  gratefully  surprised  to  find 
how  much  reliable  history  they  still  could  gather.  This 
required  minute  search  in  private  diaries  and  letters,  in 
written  memoranda,  published  periodicals  and  the  fortun- 
ately preserved  duplicates  of  Reports  made  by  Mr.  Kedzie 
during  his  Agency,  and  involved  also  extensive  corres- 
pondence. 

Often  long  search  and  much  correspondence  has  been 
necessary  to  settle  a  date  or  fact,  which  could  be  recorded 
in  a  single  line.  The  Committee  have  spared  no  pains  to 
make  this  History  accurate.  For  all  important  dates  and 
facts  they  found  some  printed  document,  written  memo- 
randum, or  personal  testimony,  on  which  they  could  rely. 
Thus  they  have  been  able  to  gather  the  important  facts 
concerning  the  organization  and  work  of  the  Seminary 
thus  far,  which,  else,  were  likely  to  perish  with  this  gen- 
eration. 

A  review  of  those  early  times  awakens  conflicting 
emotions  in  the  minds  of  those  participating  therein. 
The  Directors,  undertaking  a  work  in  which  they  never 


before  had  been  engaged,  saw,  afterward,  wherein  errors 
of  judgment  were  committed,  for  which  they  found  some 
excuse  in  their  right  intent  and  lack  of  experience.  To 
bring  the  Seminary  to  its  present  stage  of  progress,  has 
cost  much  care  and  labor  on  the  part  of  the  Directors  and 
Professors  — gladly  again  to  be  endured  for  completing  a 
work  so  well  begun. 

Upon  our  Chicago  Theological  Seminary,  this  sacred, 
and,  we  trust,  yet  to  become  ancient  seat  of  learning,  we 
invoke  what  it  has  hitherto  enjoyed,  the  cooperation  of 
the  churches  and  the  favor  of  Him,  their  Divine  Head, 
that  thus  it  may  grow  to  full  maturity  of  strength,  and 
come  to  ripe,  abundant  and  perpetual  fruitage. 

A.  S.  KEJDZIE, 

( 'Jmirnuni  <>f  (  Committee. 

CHICAGO,  ILL.,  June,  1879. 


I. 


PLANS  FOR  THEOLOGICAL  STUDY  IN   WESTERN 
COLLEGES. 

The  establishment  of  colleges  in  the  Northwest  was 
in  the  interest  both  of  education  and  religion.  Their 
founders  looked  forward  to  educating  a  Christian  ministry, 
as  an  important  function  of  those  colleges.  Facilities  for 
theological  education  were  provided  in  the  plan  of  some 
of  them. 

Soon  after  Beloit  College  began  its  work,  the  question 
of  providing  theological  education  came  before  its  Trus- 
tees in  consequence  of  actual  application  for  such  instruc- 
tion. To  meet  this  want,  early  in  1852  the  Pastor  elect 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church  in  Beloit  was  elected 
Professor  of  Theology  in  the  college.  This,  it  was 
thought,  would  be  the  beginning  of  a  Theological  De- 
partment in  which  Congregationalists  and  Presbyterians 
could  unite,  and  where  students  in  theology  would  come 
with  advantage  under  the  influence  and  instruction  of  a 
pastor.  The  call  to  both  offices  was  declined.  No  fur- 
ther attempt  has  been  made  to  open  a  Theological  De- 
partment in  Beloit  College.  The  large  number  of  young 
men  whom  this  college  has  helped  train  for  the  ministry, 
shows  that  it  is  fulfilling  a  noble  design  in  its  own  proper 
sphere  as  a  college. 

When  the  attempt  was  made  to  found  Illinois  Col- 
lege there  was  in  a  large  part  of  Illinois  a  violent  preju- 
dice against  church  and  clergy — so  violent  that  for  two 


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years  the  Legislature  refused  a  charter  for  the  college. 
One  cause  for  this  hostility  was  a  wide  and  wild  excite- 
ment caused  throughout  the  West  by  Hon.  E.  M.  John- 
son's Eeport  in  Congress  against  the  Anti- Sunday  Mails 
Petition,  charging  the  petitioners  with  the  design  of 
uniting  church  and  state,  and  of  establishing  a  religious 
despotism.  Men,  whose  memories  run  not  back  to  that 
time,  have  little  idea  of  the  violence  and  bitterness  of  that 
excitement.  Only  when,  later,  four  religious  denomina- 
tions united  in  application  for  charters,  were  any  granted. 
The  charter  of  Illinois  College,  when  first  granted,  forbade 
theological  education:  afterward  this  prohibition  was 
repealed.  A  legacy  was  received  by  the  college  toward 
founding  a  Professorship  of  Theology.  The  Trustees, 
though  not  making  any  formal  relinquishment  of  the 
design,  have  not,  as  yet,  taken  any  steps  to  open  a  Theo- 
logical Department. 

It  was  in  the  original  design  of  Knox  College  to  have 
a  Theological  Department,  and  a  fund  was  set  apart  for 
that  purpose.  Afterward  the  plan  was  abandoned,  and 
the  fund,  according  to  provision  before  made,  was  devoted 
to  the  college  proper. 

When  founding  a  Theological  Seminary  in  Michigan 
was  first  discussed,  one  of  the  projects  under  considera- 
tion was  to  have  the  Seminary  located  on  the  campus  of 
the  State  University,  by  permission  of  the  Eegents,  that 
the  theological  students  might  avail  themselves  of  certain 
courses  of  instruction  in  the  University,  thereby  enlarging 
the  rsi  ge  of  study,  and  affording  helps  to  those  pursuing 
a  special  course  of  studies. 

Iowa  College  had  no  place  in  its  plan  for  a  Theo- 
logical Department :  yet  the  education  of  ministers  was 
central  in  the  aim  of  its  founders,  so  far  as  it  could  be 
helped  by  a  thorough  course  of  collegiate  study.  The 


history  of  the  college  and  its  work  of  helping  men  into 
the  ministry  show  how  well  the  founders  of  the  college 
planned  and  wrought. 

The  same  may  be  said  of  Carlton,  Wheaton,  Olivet, 
Ripon  and  other  colleges,  which  have  come  into  promin- 
ence since  Chicago  Theological  Seminary  was  founded. 
Their  most  precious  fruit  is  the  young  men  they  educate 
for  the  ministry. 

But  in  respect  to  those  colleges  which  had  theologi- 
cal education  in  their  plans,  it  was  seen  that  to  lay  their 
foundations, involved  struggles  so  many,  that,  though  none 
of  them  came  to  founding  a  Theological  Department,  their 
success  as  colleges  was  ample  reward  and  honor  for  the 
heroic  faith  of  their  founders.  Besides,  another  and 
better  design  seems  to  have  been  in  the  purpose  of  God, 
as  disclosed  by  His  providences,  the  establishment  of  one 
Theological  Seminary,  uniting  all  the  Congregational 
churches  in  the  Northwest. 


II. 

• 

BEGINNINGS. 

Plans  for  theological  education  not  having  come  to 
maturity  in  the  colleges,  from  the  year  1850  to  1860  there 
was  a  general  move  among  evangelical  denominations  in 
the  Northwest  for  theological  education.  This  led  to  the 
establishment  of  theological  seminaries.*  The  discussion 

*  The  "  Garrett  Biblical  Institute  "  of  the  Methodists  was  opened  in  Sept., 
1856; — the  "Chicago  Theological  Seminary"  of  the  CongregationaJists  in  Oct., 
1858; — the  "Presbyterian  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Northwest"  in  Oct., 
1859,  it  having  been  transferred  from  New  Albany,  Ind.  -and  the  "  Baptist 
Union  Theological  Seminary  "  in  Oct.,  1867,  though  theological  instruction  had 
been  given  during  the  two  previous  years  under  the  auspiees  of  the  Baptist 
Theological  Union. 


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incident  thereto  led  many  men  of  broad  views  and  catholic 
spirit  to  favor  the  union  of  Presbyterians  and  Congrega- 
tionalists  in  one  theological  seminary.  This  was  resisted 
by  men  of  more  intense  denominational  affinities.  The 
resistance  came  principally  from  the  Presbyterians,  who 
had  the  advantages  of  early  occupation  and  greater 
strength.  The  Congregationalists,  pressed  with  a  sense 
of  responsibility  to  do  their  share  of  the  work  of  evangeli- 
zation in  the  Northwest,  continued  to  grope  their  way  for 
the  path,  which  at  length  they  found. 

The  design  of  founding  a  Theological  Seminary  in  the 
Northwest  came,  about  the  same  time,  to  different  Con- 
gregationalists, though  far  removed  from  each  other. 
This  may  show  it  all  the  more  clearly  to  have  been  "what 
the  spirit  saith  to  the  churches." 

Previous  to  1853  the  need  of  a  larger  supply  of  min- 
isters for  the  smaller  churches  in  Michigan,  and  of  men 
more  adequately  trained  for  pastoral  work,  occupied  the 
attention  of  thoughtful  men  in  that  State.  To  meet  this 
want  the  plan  of  theological  education,  indicated  below, 
was  designed  by  Rev.  L.  Smith  Hobart,  then  pastor  at 
Ann  Arbor,  and  by  him  submitted  to  the  General  Associa- 
tion of  Michigan,  in  May,  1853.  This  plan  was  given 
into  the  hands  of  a  committee  of  the  Association,  Messrs. 
H.  D.  Kitchel,  A.  S.  Kedzie  and  D.  Mussey,  who  reported 
it  to  that  body  for  favorable  consideration.  After  discus- 
sion it  was  referred  to  a  committee,  Revs.  L.  Smith 
Hobart,  E.  N.  Bartlett  and  J.  Patchin,  for  report  at  the 
next  annual  meeting. 

The  chairman  of  this  committee  sent  a  copy  of  the 
Plan  to  the  Congregational  Herald,  which  was  published 
in  its  issue  of  June  18th,  1853.  It  awakened  interest 
among  the  ministers  of  the  Northwest,  many  of  whom, 


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during  that  year,  came  to  feel  that  efforts  should  soon  be 
made  to  found  a  Theological  Seminary  in  this  large  and 
important  section  of  our  country.  When  first  designed 
the  plan  was  to  have  a  Theological  Seminary  in  Michi- 
gan and  chiefly  for  that  State.  But  further  study  and  a 
correspondence  which  revealed  the  broader  plan  enter- 
tained by  the  brethren  in  Illinois — to  have  one  Seminary 
for  the  Northwest — led  to  a  ready  acquiescence  therein. 

At  the  next  meeting  of  the  General  Association  of 
Michigan,  at  Detroit,  May,  1854,  this  committee  made 
report,  calling  attention  to  the  fact  that  the  Plan  pro- 
posed sought  to  combine  the  advantages  of  two  methods 
of  theological  education,  study  with  pastors  and  instruc- 
tion in  a  seminary.  The  Plan  embraced  the  following 
particulars: — The  establishment  of  a  Theological  Sem- 
inary at  some  eligible  point  in  the  Northwest : — its  course 
of  study  to  be  divided,  each  year,  into  two  terms,  a  Lec- 
ture Term  of  six  months  under  the  instruction  of  the 
Faculty,  and  a  Reading  Term  of  six  months,  to  be  pur- 
sued with  pastors  of  churches : — The  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Divinity  to  be  conferred  on  those  completing  the  full 
course  of  study: — Each  State  interested  in  the  Seminary 
to  endow  a  Professorship : — The  control  of  the  Institution 
to  be  in  a  Board  of  Trustees  elected  by  the  General  Asso- 
ciation of  such  States : — Contributions  to  be  taken  up 
annually  in  the  churches  for  the  Library. 

After  full  discussion  the  General  Association  adopted 
the  report  of  the  Committee,  highly  approving  its  Plan  of 
a  Theological  Seminary,  and  authorized  the  Secretary  to 
confer  with  other  Ecclesiastical  Bodies  in  the  Northwest 
to  secure  their  approval  and  cooperation. 

Accordingly,  the  Secretary,  Rev.  L.  S.  Hobart,  com- 
municated with  ministers  in  the  Northwest  on  the  subject. 


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He  also  furnished  a  copy  of  the  report  to  Kev.  H.  L. 
Hammond,  delegate  to  the  General  Association  of  Iowa, 
which  was  laid  before  that  body  at  Davenport,  June,  1854,' 
and  received  its  hearty  approval. 

Meantime,  the  roots  which  have  given  growth  to 
Chicago  Theological  Seminary,  were  germinating  else- 
where. It  was  an  encouragement  to  the  founders  of  the 
Seminary  that  its  roots  spread  so  far. 

In  March,  1854,  Rev.  Stephen  Peet,  of  Batavia,  Ills., 
and  Rev.  G.  S.  F.  Savage,  of  St.  Charles,  Ills.,  after  con- 
ferring with  each  other,  sent  letters  to  several  brethren  in 
Wisconsin  and  Illinois,  calling  a  meeting  to  consider  the 
project  of  founding  a  Theological  Seminary  for  the  North- 
west. This  meeting  was  held  two  weeks  later  in  Chicago, 
Philo  Carpenter,  Esq.,  being  Moderator,  and  Rev.  G.  S.  F. 
Savage,  Scribe.  The  result  of  discussion  was  a  unani- 
mous conviction  that  the  project  was  important  and 
feasible.  An  adjourned  meeting  was  held  a  few  weeks 
later,  in  which  Iowa  was  represented,  and  the  movement 
in  Michigan  reported. 

As  a  result  of  deliberations  at  this  adjourned  meeting 
and  at  the  State  Associations  following,  a  larger  meeting 
was  called.  It  met  in  Chicago  June  12th,  1854,  with  Rev. 
Asa  Turner,  Jr.,  of  Iowa,  for  Moderator,  and  Rev.  G.  S.  F. 
Savage,  Scribe.  Most  of  the  Northwestern  States  were 
represented.  Discussion  in  this  meeting  revealed  the 
fact,  that  its  members,  often  without  conference,  had  been 
deeply  interested  in  founding  a  Theological  Seminary  in 
the  Northwest.  This  meeting  voted  that  the  time  had 
fully  come  for  this  work,  and  elected  a  committee  of 
twenty-one,  from  Illinois,  Indiana,  Michigan,  Wisconsin, 
Iowa,  Missouri  and  Minnesota*,  to  mature  the  Plan  of  the 
Seminary ;  to  invite  proposals  for  a  central  site ;  to  make 


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other  preliminary  arrangements  and  submit  the  same  to  a 
general  convention  of  Congregationalists  in  the  North- 
west, to  meet  in  Chicago  upon  call  of  said  committee. 

This  committee  of  twenty-one  met  in  Chicago,  July 
12th,  1854.  After  a  full  comparison  of  views  and  dis- 
cussion of  measures,  it  was  voted  to  call  a  convention  of 
those  interested  in  founding  a  Theological  Seminary,  to 
meet  at  Chicago  in  the  following  September.  Meanwhile, 
in  timely  utterances,  the  project  was  held  before  the 
churches  by  Rev.  J.  C.  Holbrook,  in  the  Congregational 
Herald,  of  which  he  was  editor. 

In  faith  'that  the  churches  would  approve  the  enter- 
prise and  in  anticipation  of  future  organization,  friends  of 
the  project,  as  early  as  June,  1854,  secured  the  services 
of  Rev.  S.  Peet  as  Financial  Agent,  holding  themselves 
responsible  to  him  for  an  annual  salary  of  $1,200  and 
traveling  expenses. 

The  Seminary  was  conceived  in  many  hearts,  longed 
for  in  many  prayers.  It  was  demanded  by  increasing  des- 
titutions and  by  multiplication  of  churches,  as  the  wave 
of  population  rolled  westward  and  spread  into  hitherto 
uninhabited  wastes.  A  movement  to  found  the  Seminary, 
once  begun,  called  out  the  deep  interest  felt  on  the  sub- 
ject in  minds  widely  separated,  not  stirred  by  mutual  talk, 
but  because  they  had  talked  much  with  God  about  the 
moral  influence  and  destiny  of  these  Northwestern  States. 

That  there  was  to  be  a  Theological  Seminary  in  the 
Northwest,  was  a  foregone  conclusion.  Christian  homes, 
churches  and  colleges  prepared  the  way  for  it.  These 
Christian  forces,  for  full  development  and  free  work, 
needed  to  become  productive  of  a  ministry.  Their  full- 
orbed  life  could  not  else  be  reached.  The  elements  of  a 
Christian  civilization  were  at  work  over  these  broad 


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States,  and  all  the  agencies  of  such  a  civilization  were  to 
be  brought  forth  and  put  to  use. 

Besides,  here  were  gathering  mighty  forces :  some  of 
them  hostile  to  Christ's  sovereignty  over  these  common- 
wealths and  their  teeming  populations.  In  the  coming 
conflicts  no  agencies  of  the  Gospel  could  be  spared,  least 
of  all  the  Savior's  ascension  gift,  the  Gospel  ministry. 


III. 


ORGANIZATION. 

The  Convention  called  by  the  before  named  Committee 
of  twenty-one,  met  at  Chicago  Sept.  26th,  1854,  in  the 
Plymouth  Church,  and  was  attended  by  delegates  from 
the  churches  in  Michigan,  Indiana,  Illinois,  Iowa,  Wis- 
consin and  Missouri.  The  first  question  in  this  Conven- 
tion was  whether  the  time  had  come  for  our  churches  to 
found  a  Theological  Seminary.  Both  " No"  and  "Yes" 
were  given  in  answer.  The  judgment  of  other  churches, 
expressed  by  movements  for  this  end,  already  begun,  had 
its  influence.  It  was  felt  by  many  that  our  churches 
could  not  be  what  their  times  and  surroundings  require, 
unless  productive  of  a  ministry.  It  was  no  objection  to 
the  project  that  there  were  ministers  out  of  employ;  for 
not  salaries  unused,  but  work  undone,  was  the  matter  to 
be  looked  after.  Some  held  that  our  380  churches  in 
the  Northwest  were  hardly  an  adequate  constituency  for 
a  Theological  Seminary.  The  faith  of  others,  however, 
saw  a  large  increase  of  this  number  in  the  near  future. 


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Under  this  expectation,  the  Convention  ratified  the 
action  of  preliminary  meetings  and  elected  a  Board  of 
Directors — the  charter  members  of  the  Board,  distributed 
among  the  States  as  follows :  - 

MICHIGAN. — Rev.  L.  Smith  Hobart,  Rev.  Harvey  D. 
Kitchel,  Rev.  Adam  S.  Kedzie,  Judge  Solomon  L.  Withey, 
and  Joseph  E.  Beebe,  Esq. 

ILLINOIS. — Rev.  Stephen  Peet,  Rev.  William  Carter, 
Rev.  Flavel  Bascom,  Rev.  George  W.  Perkins,  Rev.  John 
C.  Holbrook,  Rev.  Nathaniel  H.  Eggleston,  Rev.  George 
S.  F.  Savage,  Philo  Carpenter,  Esq.,  and  Joseph  Johnston, 
Esq. 

IOWA. — Rev.  Alden  B.  Robbins,  Rev.  Jesse  Gurnsey, 
and  John  G.  Foote,  Esq. 

WISCONSIN. — Rev.  Charles  W.  Camp,  Rev.  Hiram 
Foote,  Rev.  John  J.  Miter,  and  Horace  Hobart,  Esq. 

MINNESOTA. — Rev.  Richard  Hall. 

INDIANA. — Rev.  M.  Augustas  Jewett. 

MISSOURI. — Rev.  Truman  M.  Post. 

The  first  Board  of  Visitors  were  Rev.  Asa  Turner, 
Jr.,  of  Iowa;  Rev.  N.  C.  Clark,  Rev.  R.  M.  Pearson  and 
A.  Comstock,  Esq.,  of  Illinois;  Rev.  H.  N.  Brinsmade 
and  Rev.  S.  M.  Eaton,  of  Wisconsin;  and  Rev.  D.  M. 
Bardwell,  of  Indiana. 

The  Board  of  Directors  were  organized  Sept.  27, 
1854,  by  electing  Rev.  S.  Peet,  President;  Rev.  N.  H. 
Eggleston,  Scribe;  Philo  Carpenter,  Esq.,  Treasurer; 
Rev.  S.  Peet,  Rev.  J.  C.  Holbrook,  Rev.  G.  W.  Perkins, 
Philo  Carpenter,  Esq.,  and  Joseph  Johnston,  Esq.,  Exec- 
utive Committee;  which  Committee  were  instructed  to 
procure  a  Charter.  Rev.  L.  S.  Hobart,  Rev.  A.  S.  Ked- 
zie and  Rev.  H.  D.  Kitchel  were  elected  a  Committee  to 
draft  a  Constitution,  which  work  providentially  fell  to  the 


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second  member  of  the  Committee,  he  having  frequent 
consultations  with  the  others. 

In  this  Convention  and  in  the  early  meetings  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  to  the  Seminary  its  characteristic 
features  were  given.  Of  these  none  were  deemed  of 
greater  importance  than  the  control,  under  which  the 
Seminary  should  be.  A  close  and  self-perpetuating  cor- 
poration was  advocated  by  some  and  opposed  by  more. 
The  original  plan  of  having  the  Board  of  Control  elected 
by  the  General  Associations  was  advocated,  and  then  op- 
posed on  the  ground  that  such  Associations  were  human 
institutions,  which  probably  would  continue,  but  might 
not.  The  churches,  on  the  other  hand,  were  held  to  be 
of  divine  institution;  and  that  the  Seminary  would  be 
best  cared  for,  most  successfully  nurtured,  as  well  as  most 
effectually  guarded  against  error,  if  put  under  the  watch 
and  control  of  the  churches.  This  view  after  full  discus- 
sion prevailed  with  unanimity ;  and  the  election  of  Direc- 
tors and  Visitors  was,  by  the  Convention,  and  by  the  con- 
sequent provisions  of  the  Constitution,  put  into  the  hands 
of  the  churches  interested,  meeting  for  this  purpose  in 
Triennial  Convention. 

The  Convention  held  that  for  sufficient  reasons  they 
could  make  the  Seminary  different  from  any  other.  Some 
felt  that  there  should  be  a  more  practical  way  of  training 
men  for  their  work,  as  found  in  the  legal  and  medical  pro- 
fessions; and  that  ministers  should  not,  as  so  often,  by 
continuous  scholastic  study,  be  educated  out  of  acquain- 
tance and  sympathy  with  the  conditions,  in  which  they 
were  to  work.  This  view  was  advocated  by  Kev.  L.  S. 
Hobart  and  Eev.  S.  Peet.  To  teach  it  was  original;  nor 
to  them  alone.  With  more  or  less  distinctness  the  same 
convictions  stirred  in  the  minds  of  many  Western  Min- 


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isters,  started  by  a  desire  to  reach  the  people,  for  which 
they  felt  their  scholastic  habits  had  somewhat  unfitted 
them. 

This  led  to  the  adoption  of  what  has  been  called  the 
"  Heading  Term,"  found  afterwards  to  be  a  misnomer. 
The  original  design  contemplated  a  course  of  reading  to 
be  pursued  by  each  student  under  the  instruction  of  some 
pastor.  But  a  more  important  end  was  to  be  served  by 
initiating  the  student  into  the  practical  work  of  his  calling 
under  the  guidance  of  an  experienced  pastor,  engaging 
with  him  in  pastoral  visitation  and  in  other  forms  of  min- 
isterial work. 

But  the  Lord  seems  to  call  many  to  the  ministry, 
who  are  not  rich  in  this  world's  goods.  This  fact  and 
lack  of  adequate  scholarship-funds  have  led  to  a  practical 
modification  of  this  Beading  Term,  in  which,  however, 
some  of  its  most  valuable  features  are  still  retained. 
Students  take  charge  of  vacant  churches  and  get  much 
valuable  training  by  these  experimental  ministrations.  A 
modification  of  the  original  plan  may  be  demanded  by  the 
necessities  of  the  case,  and  it  still  be  retained  as  a  char- 
acteristic and  valuable  feature  of  the  Seminary. 

In  this  Convention  some  urged  a  Special  Course  of 
study  by  which  men,  too  old  to  go  through  college,  or  for 
other  reasons  unable  to  do  so,  yet  nevertheless  having 
had  advantages  of  study,  and  having  withal  a  heart  de- 
voted to  the  work,  and  natural  gifts  therefor,  might  be 
educated  for  the  %  ministry.  This  course  was  advocated 
by  Rev.  J.  C.  Holbrook,  suggested,  perhaps,  by  his  own 
successful  experience,  as  the  course  of  other  Christian 
denominations  had  suggested  to  many  minds.  The  Con- 
vention authorized  this  department  of  the  Seminary's 
work;  and  the  usefulness  of  the  men,  who  have  thereby 


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been  educated  for  the  ministry,  has  amply  justified  the 
wisdom  of  the  Convention.  In  its  essential  features  this 
course  of  study  has  been  adopted  by  other  theological 
seminaries.  For  a  full  discussion  of  the  subject  reference 
is  made  to  a  Report  thereon  to  the  Triennial  Convention 
of  1879. 

An  enlargement  in  the  curriculum  of  theological 
study  was  advocated  in  the  Convention.  Though  favor- 
ably received,  no  action  was  taken.  Subsequently  the 
matter  came  up  in  the  early  meetings  of  the  Board  of 
Directors.  They  held  that  the  ministers  needed  in  the 
West,  while  panoplied  in  Biblical  Doctrine,  must  be  able 
to  meet  those  who  rejected  every  appeal  to  the  Bible ;  and 
that  the  students  sent  forth  from  this  Seminary  must  be 
fitted  for  a  more  varied  campaign,  than  they  would  be 
qualified  for  under  the  old  routine  of  theological  study. 
And  this  view  still  has  a  strong  hold  among  the  Directors. 
It  has  led  at  different  times  to  the  introduction  of  Special 
Lectures,  as  need  and  ability  warranted — an  example  fol- 
lowed, also,  by  other  Seminaries. 

A  final  subject  considered  in  the  Convention  was  co- 
operation with  the  New  School  Presbyterians  of  the 
Northwest  in  founding  a  Union  Theological  Seminary. 
When  these  Presbyterians  in  1850  and  later  had  in  hand 
the  plan  of  founding  at  Galena,  Chicago  or  elsewhere,  a 
Theological  Seminary  for  the  Northwest,  they  declined 
an  overture  for  making  it  a  Union  Seminary  in  which 
Congregationalists  and  Presbyterians  would  have  equal 
rights,  powers  and  privileges.  This  overture  was  declined, 
doubtless  for  what  seemed  to  them  good  reasons.  Such 
copartnership  might  subsequently  have  stood  in  the  way 
of  a  union  of  the  two  General  Assemblies. 


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Long  wonted  to  cooperate  with  Presbyterians  in  Home 
and  Foreign  Missions,  as  also  in  other  benevolent  enter- 
prises, Congregationalists  still  kept  alive  the  amiable 
spirit  of  the  disowned  "  Plan  of  Union."  In  consequence, 
after  much  discussion,  the  Convention  instructed  the 
Board  of  Directors  to  entertain  favorably  any  propos- 
ition for  denominational  union  in  the  work  of  training 
men  for  the  ministry.  The  Directors  even  went  further, 
took  the  initiative  and  privately  proposed  such  coopera- 
ation  with  the  New  School  Presbyterians,  which,  however, 
was  unofficially  declined.  Union  in  the  work  of  theolog- 
ical education  will  doubtless  come  as  a  fruit  of  a  broader 
charity  and  a  more  perfect  union  among  evangelical 
churches. 


IV. 

ACTION  OF  GENERAL  ASSOCIATIONS. 

Though  the  Board  of  Directors  were  upborne  by  the 
enthusiasm  of  the  Convention  electing  them,  yet  they 
felt  solicitous  for  votes  of  confidence,  which  the  churches 
might  give  in  the  calm  deliberation  of  their  State  Asso- 
ciations. It  would  be  repetitious  to  place  all  their  "Bes- 
olutions  "  upon  record.  Representative  illustrations  are 
here  given,  pertaining  to  the  Seminary  as  a  projected  de- 
sign, and  then  as  an  actual  organization.  This  chapter 
might  be  enlarged  by  recording  the  favorable  action  of 
these  Associations  from  year  to  year  according  to  the 
various  conditions  of  the  Seminary's  want  and  work. 

In  May,  1854,  the  General  Association  of  Michigan, 
anticipating  the  founding  of  a  Theological  Seminary  and 


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having  the  plan  of  it  already  before  them,  "  RESOLVED— 
That  we  adopt  the  report  of  the  committee,  highly  ap- 
proving the  Plan  of  a  Theological  Seminary  which  is 
proposed  therein,  and  that  we  authorize  the  Secretary  to 
confer  with  other  Ecclesiastical  Bodies  in  the  Northwest 
for  the  purpose  of  securing  its  approval  by  them,  and  the 
adoption  of  such  measures  as  may  be  necessary  for  the 
accomplishment  of  the  end  in  view." 

The  date  of  this  action  and  the  fact,  that  it  was 
taken  upon  the  report  of  a  committee  appointed  the  year 
before,  show  how  early  the  churches  in  Michigan  gave 
attention  to  this  matter. 

In  the  autumn  of  the  same  year  the  General  Con- 
vention of  Presbyterian  and  Congregational  churches  in 
Wisconsin  on  this  subject  took  action,  which  shows  how 
reluctant  some  were  to  abandon  the  idea  of  a  Union  Sem- 
inary. Their  action  was  as  follows : 

"Whereas,  the  subject  of  establishing  Theological 
Seminaries  in  the  Northwest  has  for  some  time  past  been 
under  consideration  by  individuals  and  ecclesiastical 
bodies,  and  preliminary  steps  have  been  taken  toward 
establishing  two  ,such  Institutions  in  Chicago  ; — And 
Whereas  such  movements  are  of  great  importance  to  the 
interests  of  religion  among  us : 

"  RESOLVED — That  it  is  the  opinion  of  this  Conven- 
tion that  immediate  and  efficient  measures  should  be  taken 
to  furnish  in  the  Northwest  theological  instruction  suited 
to  the  wants  of  Christian  young  men  desirous  to  enter  the 
ministry. 

"  RESOLVED — That  in  view  of  the  numbers  and  con- 
dition of  the  Theological  Institutions  at  the  East,  the 
churches  at  the  West  cannot  at  present  reasonably  depend 
on  the  munificence  of  their  Eastern  Brethern,  but  should 


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rely  mainly  on  their  own  resources  for  the  means  to  pro- 
vide theological  instruction  for  our  young  men. 

"  RESOLVED — That  in  the  opinion  of  this  Convention 
one  Theological  Institution  is  all  that  will  be  needful  for 
many  years  to  come  in  the  Northwest  for  Congregation- 
alists  and  New  School  Presbyterians ;  and  that  to  under- 
take a  distinctive  Congregational  or  Presbyterian  Semin- 
ary in  the  Northwest  would  be  unwise  and  injurious  to 
the  best  interests  of  Christ's  Kingdom  in  this  region. 

"  RESOLVED — That  we  hereby  declare  our  sincere 
desire  for  a  union  of  the  two  denominations  in  providing 
Theological  instruction,  and  that  we  are  ready  to  pledge 
our  hearty  co-operation  in  such  an  enterprise." 

Subsequently  President  Chapin  of  Beloit  college 
wrote: — "The  course  of  events  rendered  such  a  joint 
enterprise  impracticable,  and  the  Convention  in  due  time 
came  heartily  to  the  recommendation  and  support  of  the 
Chicago  Theological  Seminary,  and  has  contributed  freely 
to  its  establishment  and  operations." 

From  the  minutes  of  the  General  Association  of  Iowa 
for  1854,  the  following  extract  is  made:^ — "A  Report  on 
the  subject  of  theological  education  in  the  Northwest 
was  made  by  a  Delegate  from  the  General  Association  of 
Michigan;"  whereupon  the  Association— 

"  RESOLVED — That  we  approve  of  the  establishment 
at  an  early  day  of  a  Theological  Institution  in  the  North- 
west, according  to  the  general  principles  proposed  in  the 
Report."  Next  year  they— 

"  RESOLVED — That  we  feel  strong  confidence  in  the 
wisdom  of  the  plan  for  establishing  a  Theological  Semin- 
ary at  Chicago ;  that  we  are  deeply  interested  in  its  pros- 
perity, and  hereby  pledge  our  prayers  and  active  cooper- 
ation for  the  accomplishment  of  the  enterprise." 


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The  minutes  of  the  General  Association  of  Illinois  for 
1855,  say : — "  An  efficient  movement  has  been  begun  for  a 
Theological  Seminary  to  be  located  at  Chicago,  and  the 
institution  is  expected  soon  to  be  placed  on  a  permanent 
basis."  The  next  year  in  their  narrative  of  the  state  of 
'religion  they  say: — "A  wide  spread  interest  has  been 
awakened  in  the  establishment  of  the  Chicago  Theological 
Seminary,  and  a  ready  response  has  been  made  to  efforts 
to  give  it  a  full  endowment  and  efficient  support.  We 
heartily  commend  this  Institution  to  the  confidence  and 
prayers  of  the  churches  as  an  important  and  essential 
instrument  in  raising  up  a  ministry  for  the  West." 

These  Associations  and  others  in  the  Northwest 
during  subsequent  years  have  expressed  their  interest  in 
the  Seminary,  their  approval  of  its  men  and  methods,  their 
sympathy  in  its  trials,  and  their  satisfaction  in  its 
graduates. 


V. 


STRUGGLES    OF    PREPARATION. 

The  Board  of  Directors  met  at  Chicago,  March  27, 
1855,  in  deep  sorrow,  because  of  the  sudden  death  of  Rev. 
S.  Peet,  their  President  and  Financial  Agent.  Some  of 
them  had  individually  co-operated  with  him  in  his  suc- 
cessful labors  for  the  Seminary ;  the  others  had  heard  of 
his  success,  and  been  quickened  by  his  enthusiasm.  In 
the  interest  of  the  Seminary  he  went  to  New  England, 
where  he  found  the  project  looked  upon  with  curiosity  by 
some  and  with  deep  interest  by  many.  To  report  results 
he  called  a  meeting  of  the  Board,  in  the  hope  that  what 


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had  been  so  auspiciously  begun  would  soon  be  completed. 
The  sanguine  hopes  of  many,  the  headlong  rush  of  West- 
ern life,  and  an  inadequate  sense  of  the  cost  of  a  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  led  many  to  look  for  the  opening  of  the 
Seminary — even  if  in  a  somewhat  immature  condition— 
at  least  as  early  as  during  the  next  autumn,  there  having 
then  been  a  whole  year  of  preparation ! 

Could  the  Board  have  seen  that  three  and  a  half 
years  of  struggle  still  awaited  them  before  the  realization 
of  their  hopes  in  the  actual  work  of  the  Seminary,  though 
their  faith  might  not  have  failed,  yet  the  sadness  of  their 
meeting  would  have  been  deeper.  But  prayer  and  con- 
ference brought  them  to  the  conviction,  that  the  design 
of  founding  this  Theological  Seminary  was  born,  not  in  the 
counsel  of  men,  but  in  the  wisdom  of  God :  and  that  He 
still  called  them  to  a  vigorous  prosecution  of  the  work. 

Moved  with  this  conviction,  the  Board,  without 
faltering,  pushed  on  their  work.  Mr.  Carpenter  declining 
to  serve  as  Treasurer  because  of  the  press  of  his  own 
business,  the  Board  elected  Lucius  D.  Olmsted,  Esq.,  to 
that  office,  which  he  held  till  his  death,  in  March,  1862, 
discharging  its  complicated  and  onerous  duties  with  suc- 
cess, yet  without  reward,  save  the  satisfaction  of  aiding 
in  what  he  considered  an  important  work  of  his  life. 
Keasonably,  the  Board  paid  for  the  clerk  service  needed 
in  the  office,  the  collection  of  funds  from  subscribers 
being  chiefly  by  correspondence. 

For  Financial  Agent,  Eev.  Adam  S.  Kedzie,  of  Michi- 
gan, was  chosen.  He  soon  entered  upon  the  work  and 
continued  it  till  July,  1862,  canvassing  most  of  the  Con- 
gregational Churches  of  the  Northwest  in  solicitation  of 
funds,  and  rendering  a  varied  service  in  getting  the  Sem- 
inary into  working  order. 


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A  very  favorable  Charter  was  secured  without  diffi- 
culty from  the  Legislature  of  Illinois.  This  Charter,  by 
recent  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States,  exempts  all  property  of  the  Seminary  in  Illinois 
from  taxation.  The  Directors  organized  under  this 
Charter,  amended  and  adopted  the  Constitution  reported 
by  the  Committee,  and  elected  officers.  The  Charter  and 
Constitution  were  printed  and  distributed,  thus  making 
known  more  fully  the  aims  and  methods  of  the  Seminary- 
In  so  doing,  the  Constitution  was  stereotyped,  in  blessed 
ignorance  of  the  fact  that  the  well  nigh  yearly  amend- 
ments to  it  would  not  let  it  stay  stereotyped. 

The  finances  of  the  Seminary  were  found  without 
order.  No  system  of  keeping  accounts  had  been  adopted, 
nor  any  books  opened.  Some  of  its  counted  assets  were 
only  verbal  promises  to  give;  and  others,  though  in 
written  form,  had  no  legal  validity.  The  Treasurer  and 
Agent  gave  immediate  attention  to  getting  affairs  into 
order,  and  legal  forms  into  use. 

Then  began  the  persistent  work  of  securing  funds. 
This  was  chiefly  by  creating  a  General  Fund,  to  be  ex- 
pended for  any  uses  of  the  Seminary.  The  plan  was  to 
put  the  Seminary  into  operation  as  soon  as  possible,  and 
to  meet  the  cost  thereof  out  of  this  General  Fund,  till 
endowments  were  secured,  a  plan  eventually  carried  out. 

Could  this  increase  of  assets  have  gone  on  as  suc- 
cessfully as  in  1855  and  '56,  the,  Seminary  would  have 
speedily  reached  prosperity.  But  soon  came  the  commer- 
cial disasters  of  1857,  which  put  the  Seminary  through  a 
process  of  seasoning,  hardening  it  for  the  endurance  it 
was  yet  to  suffer. 

As  this  was  not  foreseen,  the  Executive  Committee, 
in  March,  1856,  sent  Eevs.  H.  D.  Kitchel  and  A.  S.  Ked- 


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zie  to  the  East  for  wise  men  to  fill  the  chairs  of  instruc- 
tion in  the  Seminary.  Men  were  freely  recommended  as 
Professors,  sometimes  with  a  surprising  lack  of  discrim- 
ination. 

After  their  return  the  Board,  in  April,  1856,  elected 
a  Faculty  of  five  Professors  for  the  usual  departments  of 
instruction,  and  enlarged  the  range  of  study  by  electing 
six  lecturers — in  expectation  that  the  Seminary  would  he 
opened  in  the  autumn  of  1856.  When,  two  years  later, 
the  Seminary  did  open,  it  was  with  a  Faculty  able  in  their 
personal  and  professional' qualifications,  but  more  econ- 
omical in  numbers. 

The  difficulties  about  the  location  of  the  Seminary- 
explained  below — lack  of  funds  in  the  treasury  and  other 
facts  of  incompleteness,  made  the  opening  of  the.  Semi- 
nary in  the  autumn  of  that  year,  to  many  of  the  Direc- 
tors, seem  premature.  Such  an  opening  was  soon  made 
impracticable  by  the  Professors  declining  to  accept  the 
positions  offered  them,  except  one  who  held  his  appoint- 
ment under  consideration. 

Another  election  of  Professors  was  made  in  January, 
1857,  for  the  two  other  most  important  chairs,  in  the 
hope  of  opening  the  Seminary  in  the  autumn  of  that  year. 
But  soon  throughout  the  country  came  the  financial  dis- 
asters which  marked  1857.  Then  doubts  arose  as  to  the 
practicability  of  opening  the  Seminary  that  autumn,  and 
the  two  Professors  newly  elected  declined.  The  Board 
felt  strong  pressure  from  subscribers  to  the  funds;  some 
of  whom  declined  further  investments  till  they  had  re- 
turns in  the  shape  of  a  class  graduated  from  the  Serni.- 
nary.  Still,  for  reasons  that  seemed  imperative  to  a  ma- 
jority of  the  Directors,  but  against  the  protest  of  some, 
the  opening  of  the  Seminary  was  deferred,  yet  definitely 
fixed  for  the  autumn  of  1858. 


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In  preparation  for  this  the  Board  of  Directors,  at 
their  meeting  in  April,  1858,  elected  Rev.  Joseph  Haven, 
D.  D.,  to  the  chair  of  Systematic  Theology,  and  Rev. 
Samuel  C.  Bartlett,  D.  D.,  to  the  chair  of  Biblical  Lit- 
erature. Prof.  Franklin  W.  Fisk,  D.  D.,  was,  in  April, 
1856,  elected  to  the  chair  of  Sacred  Rhetoric.  He  held 
it  a  matter  of  honor  to  give  Beloit  College  a  year's  notice 
before  vacating  his  chair  in  that  Institution.  Accordingly 
he  was  requested  by  the  Directors,  in  1858,  to  give  such 
notice,  so  as  to  occupy  his  chair  in  the  Seminary  as  early  as 
the  opening  of  its  second  year.  These  Professors  accept- 
ed their  appointments,  and  the  annual  prospect  of  open- 
ing the  Seminary  stood  out  as  a  brighter  vision  than  at 
any  former  time. 


YI. 


OPENING  OF  THE  SEMINARY. 

At  last,  after  four  years  of  preparatory  struggle,  on 
the  6th  of  October,  1858,  the  Chicago  Theological  Sem- 
nary  was  formally  opened  in  the  parlors  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church  on  the  south-west  corner  of  West 
Washington  and  Green  streets.  The  Faculty  present 
consisted  of  two  Professors,  Rev.  Joseph  Haven,  D.  D., 
and  Rev*.  Samuel  C.  Bartlett,  D.  D.  Ten  students  were 
in  attendance.  A  violent  rain  prevailed  during  that  and 
the  previous  hour,  which  kept  some  students,  then  in  dis- 
tant parts  of  the  city,  from  being  present.  Some  of  the 


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Board  of  Directors,  came  to  see  the  fulfillment  of  their 
long  cherished  hopes. 

The  General  Agent  called  the  meeting  to  order  and 
introduced  Prof.  Haven,  who  inaugurated  the  work  with 
a  prayer  befitting  the  occasion.  It  referred  to  the  pres- 
ent day  of  small  things,  and  then  Faith,  with  her  clear 
and  far  reaching  eye,  took  into  view  the  future  record 
which  the  Seminary  was  to  make.  Petitions  were  offered 
that  among  the  forces  then  and  there  set  at  work,  the  life 
of  Christ  might  be  central  and  all-pervading,  and  that,  in 
gathering  their  sympathies  around  the  Seminary,  the 
churches  might  be  lifted  up  into  a  commanding  sympathy 
with  Christ  and  into  a  broad  field  of  cooperation  with 
Him. 

Brief  remarks  were  made  by  the  Professors  and  Di- 
rectors, all  in  the  line  of  gratefully  recognizing  the  way 
in  which  the  Lord  had  guided  the  affairs  of  this  Institu- 
tion; and  examination  of  students  was  assigned  for  an 
hour  the  next  day.  Among  all  the  doings  in  that  busy, 
bustling  city,  the  opening  of  this  Theological  Seminary 
was  the  most  significant  thing  for  that  day. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Faculty  and  students  the  next 
day  for  prayers,  Prof.  Bartlett  officiated,  reading  the  12th 
chapter  of  Eomans.  Sixteen  students  were  present,  and 
when  the  Seminary  got  fairly  at  work  their  number  was 
found  to  be  twenty-nine.  The  Seminary  having  no  build- 
ings, the  students  were  distributed  into  Christian  families, 
by  whom,  during  the  first  year,  they  were  entertained,  in 
many  cases,  without  charge. 


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VII. 

LOCATION. 

The  Charter  provided  that  the  "Seminary  shall  be 
located  in  or  near  the  City  of  Chicago."  At  the  first, 
Mr.  Peet  made  a  verbal  agreement  with  the  Trustees  of 
Kush  Medical  College  to  purchase  their  building  for  the 
use  of  the  Seminary,  but  this  failed. 

At  the  beginning  of  his  agency,  Mr.  Kedzie  was 
charged  with  the  duty  of  securing  a  location  for  the  Sem- 
inary. He  received  a  large  number  of  proposals  from 
property  owners  and  real  estate  dealers,  and  examined 
some  forty  different  locations,  in  quantities  varying  from 
one  hundred  feet  square  to  eighty  acres,  and  in  position 
reaching  from  central  parts  of  the  city  to  miles  away. 

To  go  to  some  near-by  village  where  location  and 
building  for  the  public  rooms  of  the  seminary  could  be 
had  without  cost;  to  secure  a  considerable  quantity  of 
land  for  use  and  sale  and  build  up  a  suburban  town;  or 
to  get  the  best  location  in  the  city  and  put  the  Seminary 
in  close  contact  with  its  churches;  these  were  the  pro- 
jects discussed,  often  and  earnestly.  The  latter  project 
prevailed,  and  purchase  was  made  in  1856  of  the  corner 
west  of  Ashland  Avenue  and  south  of  West  Lake  street, 
relying  on  local  interest  to  help  in  making  payments. 
This  reliance  failed,  and  business  was  found  crowding  on 
that  corner.  So  exchange  was  made  for  the  entire  front 
of  the  next  block  south,  facing  on  Union  Park,  in  1858. 

Payment  on  this  location  gave  the  Directors  their 
sorest  financial  embarrassment.  Inability  to  make  over- 
due collections  brought  the  Seminary  into  peril.  Hence 
the  depressing  influence  felt  and  exerted  by  the  Triennial 


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Convention  of  1861.  As  on  other  occasions,  from  this 
distress  the  Seminary  was  rescued  by  such  friends  as 
Philo  Carpenter,  C.  G.  Hammond,  E.  W.  Blatchford,  J. 
M.  Williams,  T.  M.  Avery  and  S.  M.  Moore.  Others  in 
their  way  tugged  at  this  work  as  they  were  able,  and  their 
names  are  not  forgotten  by  Him,  for  whose  dear  sake  they 
did  it.  This  relief  saved  to  the  Seminary  only  the  south 
75  feet  of  its  location,  on  which  then  stood  its  temporary 
building.  This  location,  though  inadequate,  being  free 
from  incumbrance,  was  highly  prized. 

Its  inadequacy,  however,  led  to  further  inquiry  and 
endeavor.  At  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  in 
April,  1865,  Philo  Carpenter,  Esq.,  who  so  often  had 
helped  the  Board  over  hard  places,  carne  again  to  their 
relief.  He  offered  to  take  the  corner  on  Ashland  Avenue 
and  West  Washington  street,  and  give  in  exchange  the 
corner  west  of  Ashland  and  north  of  Warren  Avenues, 
fronting  on  Union  Park.  Thereby  was  secured  for  the 
Seminary  an  adequate  and  permanent  location.  The 
remainder  of  the  park-front  in  this  block  is  owned  and 
used  by  the  Union  Park  Congregational  Church,  whose 
building  and  those  of  the  Seminary  are  made  to  harmon- 
ize in  style  and  structure,  thereby  each  adding  to  the 
beauty  of  the  other.  This  exchange  involved  a  gift  of 
$7,000,  at  prices  then  current.  And  this  was  understood 
between  Mr.  Carpenter  and  the  Board  to  be  in  lieu  of  his 
former  conditional  gift  of  $5,000  to  the  Professorship  of 
Ecclesiastical  History.  The  Board,  gratefully  recogniz- 
ing the  liberality  of  Mr.  Carpenter,  then  and  previously, 
voted  to  call  the  main  building  to  be  erected  on  that  site 
"Carpenter  Hall."  So,  after  much  and  sore  tribulation 
(more  fully  shown  below  in  the  section  on  "General 
Funds,")  the  Directors  came  into  possession  of  a  location, 


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which,  when  the  buildings  are  completed,  will  be  ade- 
quate, perhaps  for  generations,  and  which  may  be  regarded 
as  fitting  and  beautiful. 

In  the  matter  of  personal  services,  mention  should 
be  made  of  the  Boards  of  Directors  and  Visitors,  who, 
within  a  wide  circle,  reaching  from  Detroit  to  Indianapo- 
lis, St.  Louis,  Grinnell,  Minneapolis  and  Milwaukee,  have 
at  great  personal  sacrifice,  been  prompt  in  attendance  at 
their  several  and  many  meetings.  They  have  come  to- 
gether not  to  ratify  plans  previously  formulated,  but  have 
taken  all  the  interests  of  the  Seminary  into  full  consider- 
ation, giving  them  protracted  and  laborious  study,  and 
then  handling  them  as  best  they  could. 

The  most  difficult  and  perplexing  details  of  their 
work  have  been  passed  over  to  the  Executive  Committee, 
and  in  managing  them  this  committee  have  given  such 
service  as  could  be  obtained  only  for  the  reward  of  help- 
ing so  important  an  interest  as  the  Eedeemer's  Kingdom. 

Mention  should  also  be  made  of  the  Board  of  Audit- 
ors, who,  annually,  have  taken  up  the  numerous  accounts 
of  the  treasury,  giving  them  full  investigation  and  ascer- 
taining their  exact  condition  before  reporting  them  to  the 
Board  of  Directors  with  approval — all  this  gratuitously 
and  as  a  work  of  love. 

A  gratitude  which  burdens  the  hearts  of  many  friends 
of  the  Seminary,  would  be  denied  expression  if  no  men- 
tion were  made  of  the  sacrifices  borne  and  the  efforts 
made  by  friends  of  the  Seminary  who  have  had  much  to 
do  in  looking  after  its  pecuniary  interests.  As  elsewhere 
noted,  Philo  Carpenter  has  repeatedly  shown  himself  an 
active  and  liberal  friend  of  the  Seminary.  Among  others, 
mention  should  also  be  made  of  C.  G.  Hammond,  E.  W. 
Blatchford,  and  J.  W.  Scoville,  who,  as  liberal  donors  to 


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the  Seminary,  have  repeatedly  brought  it  opportune  re- 
lief in  gifts  of  money  and  wisdom.  The  two  latter  also 
as  a  Financial  Committee  of  the  Executive  Committee, 
have  rendered  a  laborious  and  invaluable  service  in  advis- 
ing the  Treasurer  as  to  making  investments,  and  in  aiding 
him  to  secure  those  imperiled  by  financial  depression.  If 
particulars  could  be  given,  a  grateful  sense  of  this  obliga- 
tion would  be  widely  felt. 


VIII. 

BUILDINGS. 

The  Seminary  found  its  earliest  home  in  the  parlors 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Chicago.  These 
as  chapel,  lecture  and  recitation  rooms  it  used,  till  they 
were  found  inadequate.  This  church,  in  1859,  offered  to 
the  Seminary  the  use  for  five  years  of  an  unfinished  mission 
building  standing  a  few  blocks  west  of  Union  Park.  This 
was  accepted  and  removed  to  the  corner  of  Ashland  Ave- 
nue and  West  Washington  street.  To  it  were  added  the 
rooms  most  urgently  needed.  This  building  was  for  the 
use  of  the  Seminary,  and  those  who  afterward  were  organ- 
ized into  the  Union  Park  Congregational  Church.  To 
this  church,  from  its  infancy,  the  Professors  of  the  Semi- 
nary ministered,  for  nearly  seven  years,  till  its  first  pas- 
tor, Rev.  C.  D.  Helmer,  came — thereby  not  only  eking 
out  a  living  which  the  treasury  of  the  Seminary  failed  to 
afford,  but  also  fostering  a  church,  which  in  its  maturity 
became,  like  the  First  Church,  a  nursing  mother  to  the 
Seminary. 


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Meantime  it  was  found  impracticable  to  do  without 
dormitories.  The  difficulty  of  having  students  scattered 
into  different  parts  of  the  city,  hindering  the  maintenance 
of  the  essential  esprit  du  corps,  led  to  renting  part  of 
the  Union  Park  Hotel,  which  in  1864  was  used  by  the 
students  for  dormitories. 

The  location  of  the  Seminary  having  been  removed 
to  the  corner  of  Ashland  and  Warren  Avenues,  opportu- 
nity was  afforded  for  the  erection  of  permanent  buildings, 
which  were  demanded  by  the  growth  of  the  institution. 

Willard  Keyes,  Esq.,  of  Quincy,  Illinois,  having  given 
a  block  of  land  in  that  city  toward  endowing  the  Profes- 
sorship of  Ecclesiastical  History,  consented  that  the  avails 
of  it  might  be  used  in  the  erection  of  a  Hall.  This  first 
permanent  building,  "Keyes  Hall,"  was  completed  in  the 
autumn  of  1865.  Besides  rooms  for  general  use,  it  con- 
tains studies  and  dormitories  for  38  students.  When 
completed  it  was  not  able  to  meet  the  wants  created  by 
the  growth  of  the  Seminary. 

In  1868  was  begun  the  erection  of  the  north  wing  of 
the  main  building,  called  "Carpenter  Hall,"  in  acknowl- 
edgment of  obligation  to  Philo  Carpenter,  hitherto  the 
most  liberal  and  opportune  donor  to  the  Seminary.  In 
1869  it  was  ready  for  use,  and  contains  a  chapel,  lecture 
room  and  twenty  suites  of  rooms  for  students.  Most  of 
the  dormitories  and  studies  in  both  these  halls  have  been 
comfortably  furnished  by  churches  or  individuals.  In 
the  erection  of  these  buildings  a  debt  was  incurred,  which 
long  has  been  a  weight  upon  the  Seminary,  and  now 
amounts  to  $18,600. 


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IX. 

LIBRARY. 

So  important  is  a  library  to  a  Theological  Seminary, 
that  steps  were  taken  to  secure  one  for  the  Chicago  Semi- 
nary before  it  was  opened.  In  1856  the  valuable  library 
of  Eev.  Geo.  W.  Perkins,  containing  500  volumes,  was 
accepted  from  his  estate  as  payment  of  his  donation  of 
$500  to  the  Seminary.  Valuable  gifts  of  books  were 
secured  by  Eev.  Wm.  Patton,  D.  D.,  of  New  Haven,  Ct., 
while  traveling  in  England.  Contributions  of  books  were 
made  by  Revs.  Prof.  Twining,  J.  L.  Corning,  G.  S.  F. 
Savage,  D.  D.,  G.  F.  Magoun,  D.  D.,  J.  P.  Gulliver,  D. 
D.,  L.  Parker,  G.  B.  Hubbard,  L.  Farnham,  A.  S.  Kedzie, 
A.  W.  Porter,  E.  M.  Pearson,  T.  G.  Brainard,  H.  H. 
Morgan,  and  others;  also  by  A.  Kingman,  Esq.,  of  Bos- 
ton, Mass.,  E.  Carter  and  D.  Appleton,  Esqs.,  of  New 
York  city;  James  Eeed,  Esq.,  of  Stockbridge,  Mass. ;  Eev. 
D.  Wilson,  of  Port  Byron,  N.  Y. ;  Warren  F.  Draper,  of 
Andover,  Mass.,  and  by  Eev.  E.  N.  Kirk,  D.  D.,  of  Bos- 
ton, Mass.,  the  last  being  Walton's  Polly glott  Bible,  in 
eight  folio  volumes,  worth  $250. 

Prof.  Bartlett,  while  Librarian,  secured  donations, 
principally  from  New  England  Church  of  Chicago,  to  the 
amount  of  nearly  $1000,  <for  the  purchase  of  new  and 
much  needed  books.  In  1875  Eev.  E.  M.  Williams,  of 
Minneapolis,  Minn.,  an  alumnus  of  the  Seminary,  made 
a  donation  of  books  costing  $1,500.  These  are  rare  and 
valuable  books,  pertaining  to  Egyptology,  and  are  highly 
prized  by  scholars. 

The  Seminary  has  thus  come  to  have  a  library  con- 
taining some  5,500  volumes,  and  worth  about  $7,000. 


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This  is  a  short  story.  Would  that  there  were  more  to  tell. 
No  want  of  the  Seminary  is  more  imperative  than  a  large 
increase  of  the  library,  and  a  suitable  building  in  which 
it  can  be  safely  kept.  A  large  and  well  selected  library 
would  strengthen  the  future  ministers  of  our  Northwest- 
ern churches  for  coming  conflicts.  Besides,  it  would  be 
an  armory  from  which  they  might  draw  weapons,  upon 
occasion,  both  for  defense  and  attack.  Would  that  some 
might  place  within  reach  of  these  ministers  the  critical 
research  and  sanctified  wisdom  of  the  world's  scholarship ! 


X. 


TRIENNIAL    CONVENTIONS. 

Since  the  first  Convention,  which  selected  the  char- 
ter members  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  eight  Triennial 
Conventions  have  been  held,  averaging  208  members,  and 
representing  seven  states.  Could  the  names  of  these 
members  be  given,  they  would  be  found  a  fair  representa- 
tion of  those  who  are  most  earnest  and  aggressive  in 
pushing  the  conquests  of  the  Redeemer's  Kingdom. 
These  conventions,  by  their  conduct  of  affairs,  have  fully 
justified  their  having  oversight  of  the  Seminary. 

Pains  have  been  taken  by  the  different  Boards  of 
the  Seminary  to  bring  before  these  conventions  a  full 
and  accurate  statement  of  its  affairs.  These  statements 
have  been  taken  up  by  the  conventions  in  an  intelli- 
gent way  and  appreciative  spirit.  To  them  they  gave 
full  consideration  and  free  discussion.  Where  difficulty 
was  found  and  help  needed,  the  delegates  to  these  con- 
ventions have  not  only  devised  such  plans  of  relief  as 


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their  wisdom  suggested,  but  have  gone  back  to  their 
churches  to  carry  out  these  plans — though  not  always 
with  success  —  and  to  quicken  the  churches  with  new 
interest  in  the  Seminary.  Thereby  the  churches  have 
had  not  only  confidence  in  the  conduct  of  the  Seminary's 
affairs,  but  also  a  growing  interest  in  its  welfare ;  and  so 
the  conviction  has  come  to  them  that,  in  laying  its  foun- 
dations, "they  builded  better  than  they  knew." 

It  is  no  objection  to  this  view,  but  in  illustration  of 
it,  that  the  Second  Triennial  Convention,  held  October, 
1861,  was  depressing  in  its  influence  upon  the  minds  of 
the  Professors,  Directors  and  friends  of  the  Seminary. 
This  convention  was  held  during  the  first  year  of  the  war 
of  the  Eebellion.  The  finances  of  the  Seminary  were  in 
their  most  depressed  condition.  The  trouble  about  the 
location  was  in  its  most  discouraging  stage.  In  some 
minds  there,  was  lack  of  faith  in  the  future  success  of  the 
Seminary;  just  as  in  some  minds  there  was  lack  of  faith 
in  the  stability  of  our  national  government. 

But,  as  in  that  crisis  of  our  country  there  were  -not 
wanting  brave  and  loyal  hearts  in  adequate  numbers,  so  in 
that  crisis  of  our  Seminary  there  were  not  wanting  true 
and  fast  friends,  whose  faith  in  the  Seminary — in  its  work 
and  in  its  future — wavered  not.  The  Board  of  Directors 
made  a  full  exhibit  of  its  affairs,  because  they  had  faith 
in  the  churches,  and  in  God.  Thereby  and  through  help 
of  the  convention,  they  secured  the  confidence  of  the 
churches,  as  could  have  been  done  by  no  other  method. 

No  one  can  look  over  the  minutes  of  these  eight 
conventions ;  can  see  how  faithfully  and  fully  the  condi- 
tion of  the  Seminary  has  been  presented  by  its  Boards  of 
Control,  Oversight  and  Instruction,  even  when  some 
aspects  of  the  condition  were  full  of  discouragement; 


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and  can  see  how  fully  the  presentation  has  been  taken  up, 
discussed  until  fully  understood,  and  then  shaped  by  the 
wisdom  of  the  convention,  without  coming  to  the  convic- 
tion that  a  higher  than  human  wisdom  gave  the  oversight 
of  the  Seminary  to  these  Triennial  Conventions. 


XI. 


PROPOSED     UNION    WITH     OBERLIN. 

The  aim  of  the  Board  of  Directors  was  not  simply  to 
build  up  an  Institution,  but  to  train  men  for  the  ministry. 
For  this,  as  they  had  before  shown  in  their  willingness  to 
cooperate  with  New  School  Presbyterians,  they  were 
ready  to  adopt  any  cooperative  yet  efficient  means.  So, 
attempt  was  made,  and  repeated,  to  unite  Chicago  Theo- 
logical Seminary  and  the  Theological  Department  of 
Oberlin  College.  Though  nothing  came  of  it,  yet  record 
of  these  attempts  is  here  made,  as  showing  the  spirit  of 
the  Board  of  Directors. 

In  November,  1857,  the  Agent,  without  any  formal 
action  of  the  Board,  but  in  accordance  with  their  wishes, 
went  to  Oberlin  and  informally  consulted  with  some  of 
the  Trustees  of  that  college,  with  Professors  in  the  Theo- 
logical Department,  and  with  others,  on  removing  that 
Department  with  its  Professors  to  Chicago  and  making  it 
the  nucleus  of  the  Theological  Seminary  then  about  to  be 
opened  there. 

Kefusals  of  Professors  elect  to  accept  Chairs  in  the 
Seminary,  led  the  Board  to  be  less  sanguine  than  at  the 
first,  in  their  hopes  of  securing  men  fitted  for  the  work  of 
instruction,  and  for  giving  the  Seminary  a  commanding 


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position  in  the  esteem  of  the  churches.  In  consequence, 
they  were  disposed  to  take  men  who  had  already  proved 
themselves  competent  for  these  purposes.  Hence,  the 
above  proposal  for  union.  And  though  no  action  was 
taken  by  either  party,  the  attempt,  though  for  other 
reasons,  was  afterwards  renewed  in  a  more  formal  way. 

In  June,  1869,  Hon.  C.  G.  Hammond,  Revs.  A.  S. 
Kedzie  and  H.  Foote,  members  of  the  Board,  were  sent 
to  Oberlin,  bearing  a  formal  proposal  for  the  transfer  of 
the  Theological  Department  of  Oberlin  College  to  Chi- 
cago, with  its  Professors  and  funds.  With  the  immigrant 
drift,  ministers  educated  at  Oberlin  had  come  to  Michi- 
gan and  further  west.  In  consequence,  many  of  the 
churches  in  the  Northwest  felt  a  warm  interest  in 
Oberlin,  yet  were  officially  connected  with  the  Seminary 
at  Chicago,  through  the  Triennial  Convention.  This 
division  of  interest  was  a  chief  reason  for  the  proposed 
transfer.  Concentration  of  strength,  more  work  for  the 
same  Professors,  and  facilities  for  experimental  work 
afforded  by  a  large  city,  were  also  urged. 

To  these  reasons  it  was  replied : — That  from  the 
founding  of  Oberlin  one  of  its  aims  was  the  education  of 
ministers; — that  there  were  doubts  as  to  the  legality  of 
such  a  transfer;  -and  that,  though  the  Chicago  Seminary 
had  a  large  work  to  do  in  its  broad  field  of  the  Northwest, 
the  Oberlin  Seminary  had  a  work  to  do  in  training  min- 
isters to  labor  in  the  opening  fields  of  the  South.  Yet 
that,  if  the  churches  in  Ohio  did  not  put  the  Seminary  at 
Oberlin  in  a  more  effectual  way  of  reaching  its  ends,  the 
proposed  transfer  would  hereafter  receive  more  favorable 
consideration. 


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XII. 

TREASURERS,  AGENTS  AND  GENERAL  FUNDS. 

At  the  organization  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  Philo 
Carpenter,  Esq.,  was  elected  Treasurer.  The  pressure  of 
his  business  forbade  his  serving.  At  the  meeting  of  the 
Board  in  March,  1855,  Lucius  D.  Olmsted,  Esq.,  was 
elected  to  that  office,  and  served,  gratuitously  yet  faith- 
fully, till  his  death  seven  years  later.  He  organized  the 
Treasury  Department,  and  initiated  its  admirable  system 
of  keeping  accounts. 

In  April,  1862,  Rev.  Henry  L.  Hammond  was  elected 
Treasurer  and  General  Agent,  Mr.  Kedzie's  resignation 
of  the  latter  office  taking  effect  in  July  of  that  year.  Mr. 
Hammond  served  till  July,  1872.  Under  his  administra- 
tion very  marked  progress  was  made  in  securing  endow- 
ments and  in  erecting  the  permanent  buildings  of  the 
Seminary.  In  substantial  prosperity,  the  ten  years  of  his 
service  was  the  most  encouraging  decade  in  the  history 
of  the  Seminary  to  this  date. 

In  July,  1872,  Rev.  George  S.  F.  Savage,  D.D., 
elected  Treasurer  at  the  previous  meeting  of  the  Board, 
entered  upon  the  duties  of  that  office,  with  great  advan- 
tage to  the  Seminary  and  satisfaction  to  the  Board,  and 
with  like  acceptance  serving  to  this  date.  Securing 
funds  imperilled  by  the  late  financial  depression,  safely 
investing  them,  providing  for  claims  on  the  treasury, 
caring  for  the  welfare  of  the  students  and  the  safety  of 
the  buildings,  made  his  vocation,  like  that  of  his  prede- 
cessor, perplexing  and  onerous.  Yet  its  duties  have  been 
well  met.  Also,  by  his  large  acquaintance  he  has  made 
the  Seminary  widely  and  favorably  known,  thereby  se- 


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curing  to  it  an  encouraging  increase  of  both  General  and 
Permanent  Funds. 

After  the  short  and  successful  agency  of  Rev.  Ste- 
phen Peet,  terminating  with  his  death,  Rev.  Adam  S. 
Kedzie  was  elected  General  Agent,  or  Financial  Secretary. 
After  more  than  seven  years  of  service  he  resigned.  He 
has  since  in  like  way  served  the  Seminary  as  the  exigency 
of  its  affairs  demanded,  and  is  now  in  the  eleventh  year 
of  his  service  as  Financial  Secretary.  In  this  work  of 
raising  funds  for  the  Seminary,  special  service  for  brief 
times  has  been  rendered  by  Revs.  N.  H.  Eggleston,  James 
Hawley,  Hiram  Elmer,  Philo  E.  Kurd,  D.D.,  C.  A.  Leach, 
W.  H.  Daniels,  J.  W.  Cass,  E.  Hildreth,  and  F.  Wheeler. 

Nominal  assets  to  the  amount  of  about  $250,000 
were  obtained  for  the  Seminary  during  eight  years  from 
the  first  organization  of  the  Board  of  Directors.  Here 
was  a  show  of  prosperity,  betokening  the  deep  interest 
which  Northwestern  Congregationalists  felt  in  the  Semi- 
nary. Much  of  this  was  in  notes  payable  in  five  annual 
installments.  Before  these  fell  due,  many  found  that  in 
giving  such  notes  they  had  followed  the  impulse  of  their 
hearts,  rather  than  the  counsels  of  their  judgments. 

Then  came  the  commercial  disasters  of  1857,  and  a 
few  years  later  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.     Many  makers 
of  these  notes  had  gone  to  the  defense  of  their  country — 
some  never  to  return.     Consequently,  though  an  admira- 
ble system  of  collections  was  persistently  pushed  by  the 
Treasurer,  L.  D.  Olmsted,  Esq.,  still,  when  that  disheart- 
ening Triennial  Convention  of  Oct.,  1861,  came,  he  was 
compelled  to  report  as  past  due- 
January  1,   1859,  $28,177  20 
1,   1860,  34,233  74 
1,    1861,                                       -                           -       39,569  65 


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Union  Park  subscriptions  to  the  building  fund,  made 
by  parties  who  in  so  doing  were  interested  only  in  mate- 
rial improvements,  cairne  to  pretty  general  failure — in 
some  cases  because  the  parties  themselves  had  failed;— 
others  sought  excuse  because  elegant  and  costly  buildings 
were  not  speedily  erected.  The  Treasurer  and  Financial 
Secretary  sifted  the  chaff  out  of  this  General  Fund,  and 
the  valuable  part  left  was  hypothecated  to  pay  different 
claimants  upon  the  treasury. 

Amid  these  disheartenments,  mention  should  be  made 
of  the  faith  and  steadfastness  of  the  Professors.  They 
had  left  desirable  positions  and  ventured  their  temporal 
prosperity  upon  the  "promises  to  pay"  held  by  the  Treas- 
urer; so  many  of  which,  excusably  or  not,  were  found  a 
snare.  Though  invited  to  attractive  work  elsewhere,  the 
Professors  held  fast  the  places,  into  which  it  seemed  the 
providence  of  God  had  called  them,  being  confident  that 
God  and  the  churches  would  not  let  so  great  a  work 
come  to  failure. 

Yet  it  will  be  well  to  know  how  near  to  failure  the 
Seminary  came  in  1861  and  '62.  The  Treasurer  could 
not  pay  the  Professors,  whose  chief  pecuniary  reliance 
thus  failed  them.  The  depressing  influences  of  the  Tri- 
ennial Convention  of  October,  1861,  were  felt  deeply. 
These  were  the  discouraging  times  in  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion,  when  for  weary  months  the  daily  report  came ; 
"All  quiet  on  the  Potomac."  The  difficulty  about  the 
location  was  in  its  ugliest  shape,  the  Board  being  bound 
to  make  payments,  which  failure  of  the  General  Fund 
and  Location  Fund  made  impossible.  It  was  a  time  of 
rebuke.  The  Board  held  before  them  the  question  of 
suspension.  But  how  could  this  be  done,  when  the  prac- 
tical work  of  the  Seminary  was  going  on  so  successfully? 


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The  Board  felt  this  to  be  the  most  critical  period  in  their 
history :  but  rather  than  take  up  the  question  of  suspen- 
sion, they  took  in  hand  the  matter  of  reducing  expenses, 
and  of  suffering  loss  by  failure  in  payments  on  the  lo- 
cation. 

Then  each  of  the  Professors  voluntarily  made  reduc- 
tion of  his  salary  to  the  amount  of  $500  per  annum  for 
three  years.  At  the  same  time,  1861,  appeal  was  made 
by  the  Board  to  the  churches — renewed  in  1862 — for  col- 
lections to  pay  the  Professors  and  keep  the  Seminary  at 
work.  In  response,  the  General  Association  of  Michigan, 
called  on  its  churches  for  $1,000  a  year;  Iowa  for  $750 
from  its  churches;  Wisconsin  for  $1,000;  Illinois,  outside 
of  Chicago  Association,  $1,000;  and  the  Chicago  Asso- 
ciation for  $2,000.  The  results  of  these  efforts  were  very 
disheartening.  Meantime,  a  special  form  of  note  was 
pushed  by  the  Agents,  for  a  fund  to  be  exclusively  used 
in  paying  the  Professors. 

By  all  these  means  it  was  hoped  $6,000  a  year  might 
be  secured,  but  in  consequence  only  $4,000  per  year 
came.  In  the  summer  vacation  of  1862,  at  the  request 
of  the  Board  of  Directors,  the  Professors  went  East  and 
appealed  to  friends  in  New  England,  and  secured  relief  to 
the  amount  of  about  $4,000.  And  so,  by  one  means  and 
another,  through  the  good  providence  of  God,  the  Semi- 
nary, despite  forebodings  of  evil  and  prophecies  of  failure, 
was  kept  alive,  and  the  Professors  at  their  posts,  till  the 
work  of  endowing  three  Professorships  was  successfully 
undertaken. 


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XIII. 

ENDOWMENTS. 

The  Board  of  Directors  held  that,  while  endowments 
for  Professorships  and  Scholarships  were  important,  the 
first  and  most  pressing  object  was  a  General  Fund,  all  of 
which  could  be  used  for  any  of  the  purposes  of  the  Semi- 
nary :  consequently,  to  secure  such  a  Fund  was  the  chief 
aim  in  the  early  years  of  the  Seminary.  Yet,  during  the 
Agency  of  Mr.  Kedzie,  some  scholarships  were  secured, 
which  afterwards  became  available;  and  some  Professor- 
ships, which  did  not  become  available  for  that  purpose. 

As  before  noted,  Willard  Keyes,  Esq.,  of  Quincy,  111., 
gave  land  lying  in  that  city,  the  prospective  value  of  which, 
it  was  hoped,  would  endow  the  Chair  of  Ecclesiastical 
History.  To  meet  a  more  immediate  want  of  the  Semi- 
nary, by  his  consent,  this  donation  was  used  in  erecting 
"  Keyes  Hall." 

As  early  as  in  1855,  when  the  Seminary  could  be 
seen  only  by  faith,  Philo  Carpenter,  Esq.,  of  Chicago, 
gave  a  donation  of  land  in  that  city^  the  avails  of  which, 
when  needed,  were  expected  to  be  adequate  to  endow  the 
Chair  of  Biblical  Theology.  This,  with  his  consent,  was 
used  for  other  purposes  of  the  Seminary. 

And  here  it  may  be  worth  noting,  as  indicating  the 
forces  at  work,  that  Mr.  Carpenter  stipulated,  in  accord- 
ance with  the  Constitution  of  the  Seminary,  that,  when 
his  offered  endowment  should  become  available,  no  incum- 
bent of  that  Chair  of  Biblical  Theology  should  teach  that 
slavery  is  in  accordance  with  the  Word  of  God.  Looking 
back  from  that  time,  this  seemed  a  wise  caution,  however 
it  may  now  appear.  Perhaps  there  was  no  need  of  it  in 


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a  Seminary  controlled  by  the  free  churches  of  the  North- 
west ;  but  the  stipulation,  and  its  ready  acceptance  by  the 
Directors,  show  the  conflict  of  those  times,  and  the  spirit 
of  the  Founders  of  the  Seminary. 

For  five  years  after  the  opening  of  the  Seminary,  its 
two,  and  then  three  Professors,  were  paid,  and  other 
expenses  of  the  Institution  met,  from  the  General  Fund. 
When  this  Fund  ran  low,  and  the  discouragements  of 
1861  and  '62  had  been  borne  unto  weariness,  and  even 
faintness,  God  stirred  up  the  heart  of  Philo  Carpenter,  as 
before,  to  come  to  the  relief  of  the  Seminary.  Compre- 
hending the  situation  and  its  peril,  Mr.  Carpenter,  at  his 
own  instance,  offered  to  give  $5,000  to  each  of  the  three 
earliest  occupied  Professorships,  on  condition  that  the 
Board  raise  $20,000  additional  for  each  of  said  Professor- 
ships ;  a  pledge  which  he  afterwards  fully  redeemed  by 
paying  the  promised  amount  into  the  treasury  in  cash  and 
United  States  bonds. 

Encouraged  by  this  offer,  the  friends  of  the  Semi- 
nary, without  seeing  very  clearly  how  the  above  con- 
dition could  be  met,  nevertheless  projected  the  plan  of 
raising  one  of  these  Professorships  in  Illinois,  a  second  in 
Michigan,  Indiana  and  Wisconsin,  and  the  third  in  New 
England.  Manifold  failures  in  finance  had  brought  the 
friends  of  the  Seminary  to  a  spirit  of  moderation  in  their 
expectations. 

Just  then  relief  and  encouragement  came.  In  the 
spring  of  1863,  Prof.  Fisk  was  called  to  labor  in  the 
Plymouth  Church,  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  during  a  time  of  re- 
ligious interest.  He  won  their  hearts,  and  they  took  hold 
of  the  work  of  endowing  his  Professorship.  In  that  and 
neighboring  churches,  Prof.  Fisk  raised  $20,000,  and 
$3,000  more  among  his  friends  in  Boston,  Mass.,  thereby 


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securing  Mr.  Carpenter's  offer.  This  Wisconsin  endow- 
ment, productive  and  unproductive,  now  amounts  to 
$35,000. 

Encouraged  by  this  marked  success,  Prof.  Bartlett, 
having  secured  $5,000  in  Illinois,  chiefly  from  the  New 
England  Church,  in  Chicago,  of  which  he  had  formerly 
been  Pastor,  made  three  trips  to  the  East,  in  1863,  and 
canvassed  in  twenty-one  towns  and  cities,  aided  in  this  by 
the  Treasurer,  Kev.  H.  L.  Hammond.  Thereby,  $20,000 
and  the  pledge  of  Mr.  Carpenter  were  secured.  This 
New  England  endowment,  productive  and  unproductive, 
now  is  $36,000. 

Meantime,  Prof.  Haven,  in  1863,  by  personal  solicit- 
ation among  his  friends  at  the  East,  by  canvass  of  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  and  of  the  principal  towns 
in  Illinois,  aided  in  this  by  the  Treasurer  and  others, 
adding  Mr.  Carpenter's  donation,  secured  the  Illinois  en- 
dowment, now  amounting  to  $27,500  productive  and  un- 
productive. 

So  inspiriting  was  the  success  in  securing  these 
endowments,  that  the  Triennial  Convention,  in  April, 
1864,  was  a  jubilant  one,  quite  in  contrast  with  that  of 
October,  1861.  When  the  Report  of  the  Board  of  Di- 
rectors was  half  read,  the  Convention  felt  constrained  to 
request  that  the  reading  might  cease,  till  they  could  give 
special  thanks  to  God  for  these  marked  tokens  of  His 
favor  to  the  Seminary. 

The  churches  in  Michigan,  meantime,  began  to  feel 
a  sense  of  their  responsibility  in  the  matter  of  endowing 
the  Professorship  of  Ecclesiastical  History.  Nothing, 
however,  was  done  till  1866.  Two  years  later,  they  ad- 
dressed themselves  more  vigorously  to  the  work,  district- 
ing the  State,  and  assigning  one  district  to  each  of  the 


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resident  Directors,  to  be  canvassed  by  him.  Blank  forms 
of  notes  were  prepared ;  also  circulars,  setting  forth  the 
main  facts  and  arguments  of  the  case.  What  the  result 
of  the  effort  would  have  been,  cannot  now  be  known;  for 
just  at  this  juncture  the  whole  proceeding  was  stopped 
by  the  well-warranted  announcement  that  Mrs.  Mary  J. 
Sweetzer,  of  Port  Huron,  Mich.,  had  left  a  legacy  of 
$30,000  for  the  endowment  of  the  Professorship  of  Eccle- 
siastical History  in  the  Chicago  Theological  Seminary, 
the  same  being  one-third  of  the  amount  left  by  her  for 
the  religious  department  of  life's  business. 

Mrs.  Sweetzer  was  a  worthy  member  of  the  Congre- 
gational Church  at  Port  Huron,  whose  Pastor  was  Rev. 
J.  S.  Hoyt,  D.D.,  a  warm  friend  of  the  Seminary,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  Visitors,  and  afterward  of  the  Board 
of  Directors.  How  far  he  quickened  this  interest  in  her 
mind,  and  how  far  the  prevalent  feeling  among  the 
churches  of  the  State  affected  her,  has  been  inquired  for; 
but  some  one's  modesty  refuses  to  tell.  The  last  $4,500 
of  this  legacy  will  be  paid  in  November,  1879,  when  the 
Sweetzer  and  Michigan  endowments,  productive  and  un- 
productive, will  be  $32,000. 

Afterward,  Iowa,  not  consenting  to  be  without  share 
in  this  good  work,  began  the  endowment  of  the  Professor- 
ship of  Pastoral  Theology  and  Special  Studies.  This 
Iowa  endowment  now  amounts  to  $25,000,  of  which 
only  $19,000  are  productive. 

There  are  wanted :  1st.  The  completion  of  these  well- 
begun  endowments ;  2d.  An  endowment  for  the  Professor- 
ship of  New  Testament  Literature;  3d.  A  fund  for 
instruction  in  Elocution;  and  4th.  Foundations  for  cer- 
tain much-desired  Lectureships,  thereby  to  enlarge  the 
course  of  study.  These  are  the  pressing  wants  in  the 
Department  of  Instruction. 


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Since  the  first,  other  Scholarships  have  been  obtained. 
Of  those  already  secured,  twenty-one  are  productive:— 
viz.,  Austin  Memorial,  Horace  Billings,  Elizabeth  Booth, 
Joseph  Burrage,  John  L.  Childs,  Willard  Cook,  E.  W. 
Davis,  Deer  Park,  Depew,  Emily  Doane,  John  Dove, 
J.  Worcester  Field,  Haywood,  W.  Hunt,  L.  J.  Knowles, 
New  London,  Olivet,  E.  G.  Peters,  Joseph  Tilson,  El- 
bridge  Torrey,  W.  Wolcott.  Twelve  other  Scholarships 
are  pledged  for  the  future : — viz.,  Bascom,  Blood,  Gush- 
ing, Foster,  Hubbell,  Kendrick,  Lewis,  Mack,  Keynolds, 
C.  L.  A.  Tank,  L.  Warner  and  S.  Warner. 

The  total  amount  of  Scholarship  Funds,  paid  and 
pledged,  is  $42,785.  An  urgent  want  of  the  Seminary  is 
more  of  these  funds.  Yearly,  students,  who  would  prefer 
to  study  in  our  Seminary,  are  compelled  to  desist  or  go 
elsewhere,  for  lack  of  such  aid.  The  founder  of  a  Schol- 
arship educates  a  perpetual  line  of  young  men  for  the 
ministry.  Also,  Scholarship  Funds  are  needed,  to  afford 
the  means  and  incentive  to  more  extended  study  and 
riper  scholarship.  For  coming  conflicts,  men  cannot  be 
educated  too  soon,  nor  too  well. 

Eev.  W.  W.  Patton,  D.  D.,  President  of  Howard 
University,  formerly  an  efficient  member  of  the  Board  of 
Directors,  gave  $1,000,  the  interest  of  which  is  to  be  used 
in  binding  books,  pamphlets,  &c.,  for  the  Library.  By 
vote  of  the  Board,  it  is  known  as  the  "  Patton  Binding 
Fund." 

In  all  such  Institutions,  a  Permanent  General  Fund, 
the  avails  of  which  shall  meet  incidental,  current  and 
ever  recurrent  expenses,  is  a  pressing  necessity.  The 
larger  and  wealthier  an  Institution  becomes,  the  more 
urgent  is  this  want.  Dr.  Savage,  during  his  service  as 
Treasurer,  in  addition  to  his  other  duties,  has  devoted  his 


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efforts,  so  far  as  he  has  had  time,  to  raising  such  a  fund, 
and  has  secured  nearly  $20,000  for  that  object.  Toward 
this  permanent  General  Fund,  A.  P.  Kelley,  C.  F.  Gates, 
and  O.  B.  Green,  Esqs.,  of  Chicago,  and  John  Bertram, 
Esq.,  of  Salem,  Mass.,  have  made  liberal  donations.  The 
completion  of  this  fund  would  save  much  painful  friction. 
No  want  of  the  Seminary  is  more  constantly  felt. 


XIV. 

OUT    OF    THE    FIRE. 

God  is  to  be  praised  for  His  wonderful  care  of  the 
Institution  during  the  "  Great  Fire  of  Oct.  8th  and  9th, 
1871."  He  restrained  the  flames  and  kept  them  more 
than  a  mile  away  from  the  Seminary,  in  whose  buildings 
some  of  its  best  friends  found  a  safe  refuge  for  their 
goods.  The  dwellings  of  the  Professors  were  all  passed 
by  unharmed.  The  Treasurer's  office  was  indeed  burned, 
with  important  records,  account  books  and  documents, 
but  the  most  valuable  papers  in  it  were  saved. 

A  kind  Providence  had  detained  the  Treasurer,  Rev. 
H.  L.  Hammond,  in  the  city,  against  his  plans  and  wishes, 
over  that  eventful  Sabbath.  He  was  awakened  at  his  home 
on  Sangamon  street,  a  mile  and  a  half  from  the  office,  a 
little  before  2  o'clock  on  Monday  morning,  and  learned 
from  a  passer-by  that  the  fire  had  crossed  the  river  and 
was  raging  on  the  South  side.  He  went  out  at  once  with 
his  son  to  see  it.  Soon  it  became  apparent  that  the  office 
was  in  danger ;  and  the  valuables  there,  protected  only  by 


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an  old  safe,  were  in  peril.  They  started  for  it.  The  devour; 
ing  wave  had  cut  off  their  nearest  route ;  but  by  making 
a  detour  of  several  blocks,  running  through  a  storm  of 
live  coals,  they  reached  the  office,  84  Washington  street 
near  Dearborn,  a  few  minutes  before  it  was  burned. 

By  the  light  of  the  flames,  now  close  upon  them, 
they  opened  the  safe,  took  out  papers  representing  about 
$150,000  of  assets,  hastily  gathered  a  few  other  things, 
and  retreated  amid  the  rush  and  roar  of  the  hot  wind  and 
flying  fire-brands,  the  crash  of  falling  walls  and  terrific 
explosions,  whose  cause  they  could  only  conjecture. 

But  how  to  return  to  the  West  side?  Five  minutes 
had  rapidly  spread  the  devastation  east  and  north,  and  a 
larger  circuit  was  required  for  safety.  They  went  east  to 
State  street  and  north  to  South  Water,  before  they  could 
turn  westward  and  cross  by  Lake  street  bridge.  They 
regained  Sangamon  street  safely,  with  their  precious  bur- 
den, at  three  o'clock,  having  gone  more  than  three  miles 
in  one  hour,  an  hour  in  which  millions  of  dollars  vanished, 
and  thousands  of  homes  were  destroyed. 

This  rescue  not  only  required  that  the  Treasurer  and 
his  son  should  rush  into  danger,  but  the  exertion  necessary 
to  save  those  assets,  induced  severe  suffering,  and  im- 
perilled the  life  of  the  Treasurer.  The  importance  of  the 
rescue  was  enhanced  by  the  fact  that  the  official  records 
of  these  securities  was  destroyed  by  the  burning  of  the 
County  Records.  It  was  found,  after  the  fire,  that, 
although  the  investments  of  the  Seminary's  funds  were 
almost  wholly,  in  Chicago,  only  $2,000  were  secured  on 
property  in  the  burnt  district ;  and  that  loan  was  soon 
paid. 


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XV. 

FACULTY  AND  STUDENTS. 

Eight  Professors  have  been  elected,  and  seven  in- 
augurated, in  the  Seminary.  Rev.  Joseph  Haven,  D.  D. 
to  the  Chair  of  Systematic  Theology,  and  Rev.  Samuel 
C.  Bartlett,  D.  D.  to  the  Chair  of  Biblical  Literature, 
were  elected  April  28th,  1858;  and  were  inaugurated,  the 
former  October  '20th,  and  the  latter  October  21st,  of  that 
year.  These  inaugurations  were  in  the  First  Baptist 
Church,  where  now  stands  the  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
and  during  the  sessions  of  the  Triennial  Convention. 
To  these  Professors  the  Charge  was  given  by  Rev.  Dr. 
Kitchel,  as  President  of  the  Board.  Prof.  Haven  gave 
instruction  till  the  summer  of  1870,  when,  while  absent 
in  Europe  in  search  of  health,  he  resigned  his  Chair. 
Prof.  Bartlett  resigned,  to  take  effect  July  1st,  1877,  and 
accepted  the  Presidency  of  Dartmouth  College. 

Rev.  Franklin  W.  Fisk,  D.  D.  was  elected  April  2d, 
1856,  to  the  Chair  of  Sacred  Rhetoric.  Upon  acceptance, 
after  somewhat  protracted  consideration,  he  felt  that  he 
could  not  honorably  release  himself  from  Beloit  College 
till  1859,  and  was  inaugurated  April  28th,  of  that  year. 
The  Charge  was  addressed  to  him  by  Rev.  Dr.  Bascom. 

Rev.  James  T.  Hyde,  D.  D.,  was  elected  Sept.  21st, 
1869,  to  the  Professorship  of  Pastoral  Theology  and  Spe- 
cial Studies,  and  was  inaugurated  April  26th,  1870.  The 
Charge  by  Rev.  Dr.  Robbins. 

To  the  Chair  resigned  by  Prof.  Haven,  Rev.  George 
N.  Boardman,  D.  D.,  was  elected  April  4th,  1871,  and  was 
inaugurated  Sept.  14th,  1871.  The  Charge  was  deliv- 
ered by  Rev.  A.  S.  Kedzie. 


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Eev.  Theodore  W.  Hopkins,  A.  M.,  was  elected  Pro- 
fessor of  Ecclesiastical  History  April  29th,  1874,  and  was 
inaugurated  April  29th,  1875.  The  Charge  by  Rev.  Dr. 
Post. 

Eev.  Samuel  Ives  Curtiss,  Ph.  D.-D.  D.,  was  elected 
Professor  of  Biblical  Literature,  in  the  place  of  Dr.  Bart- 
lett,  May  15th,  1878.  He  was  inaugurated  April  22d, 
1879.  The  Charge  by  Rev.  Dr.  Chapin. 

All  the  above  inaugurations  were,  as  required  by 
the  Constitution,  in  the  presence  of  the  Board  of  Direc- 
tors, and  with  assent  to  the  Constitutional  Formula  of 
Faith. 

The  Professorship  of  Biblical  Literatue  was  divided 
June  10th,  1879.  Whereupon  Prof.  S.  Ives  Curtiss,  Ph. 
D.-D.  D.,  was  retained  as  the  New  England  Professor  of 
Old  Testament  Literature  and  Interpretation;  and  Prof. 
J.  T.  Hyde,  D.  D.,  was  transferred  to  the  Professorship 
of  New  Testament  Literature  and  Interpretation,  upon 
the  Iowa  Endowment. 

At  the  same  date,  Rey.  G.  Buckingham  Willcox,  D. 
D.,  was  elected  to  be  Professor  of  Pastoral  Theology  and 
Special  Studies.  He  has  accepted  and  will  enter  upon 
his  course  of  instruction  in  the  autumn  of  1879. 

Prof.  Edward  M.  Booth,  A.  M.,  has  given  instruc- 
tion in  elocution  each  year,  since  1868,  training  all  the 
students  in  the  best  methods  of  effective  address. 

Profs.  Bartlett  and  Fisk,  after  many  years  of  service, 
were  granted  leave  of  absence  for  a  year,  to  travel  and 
study  in  the  Old  World. 

Special  Courses  of  Lectures  have  been  given  by  :— 

1.  Pres.  J.  M.  Sturtevant,  D.  D.,  in  1859-62,  on 
Modern  Sects. 


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2.  Kev.  T.  M.  Post,  D.  D.,  in  1870-72,  on  Ecclesi- 
astical History. 

3.  Eev.  E.  Beecher,  D.  D.,  in  1860-63,  on  Chris- 
tian Organization  of  Society. 

4.  Kev.  J.  Blanchard,  in  1858-59,  on  Connection 
of  Old  and  New  Testaments,  and  omPastoral  Theology. 

5.  Eev.  J.  B.  Walker,  D.  D.,  in  1858-62,  on  Con- 
nection of  Science  and  Religion. 

6.  Rev.  A.  L.  Chapin,  D.  D.,  in  1862,   on  Chris- 
tianity and  Social  Life. 

7.  Rev.  W.  W.  Patton,  D.  D.,  in  1875-77,  on  Mod- 
ern Skepticism. 

This  enlargement  of  the  range  of  study  by  Lecturers 
especially  qualified  to  open  new  fields  of  research,  is  an 
example,  which  other  like  Institutions  have  followed; 
and  they  have  pushed  it  even  more  successfully  than  this 
Seminary,  owing  to  lack  of  funds  has  been  able  to  do. 

Four  hundred  and  four  students  have  been  instruc- 
ted in  Chicago  Seminary.  They  have  come  from  24 
States  and  Territories  of  our  Union,  also  from  Canada, 
England,  Ireland,  Scotland,  Wales,  France,  Germany, 
Holland,  Iceland,  Africa,  and  India.  Of  these  students 
some  completed  their  course  elsewhere,  and  some  failed 
for  various  reasons  to  take  the  prescribed  curriculum  of 
study.  The  209  others  have  graduated,  164  from  the 
Regular  and  45  from  the  Special  Course. 

The  Alumni  have  formed  an  Association  for  further 
progress  in  study.  For  the  past  fifteen  years  this  Asso- 
ciation has  met  at  the  Seminary,  and,  aided  by  the  Pro- 
fessors and  others,  its  members  have  taken  in  hand  for 
discussion  such  matters  of  doctrine  and  practice  as  study 
and  experience  suggested,  renewing  their  attachment  to 


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their  Alma  Mater,  and  more  fully  qualifying  themselves 
for  their  work. 

Of  the  Alumni  twelve  have  died.  The  others  are 
serving  the  Master  in  twenty-eight  states  and  territories 
of  our  Union  and  in  nine  foreign  countries.  They  were 
all  loyal  to  their  country  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion, 
several  of  them  having  served  in  the  army;  but  what  is 
more  than  that,  so  far  as  known,  they  are  loyal  to  the 
Truth  and  true  to  the  Master. 


XVI. 

CONCLUSION. 

The  work  of  founding  and  fostering  our  Theological 
Seminary  has  brought  about  noteworthy  results.  Only 
brief  mention  of  some  of  these  can  here  be  made. 

1.  The  Seminary  has  trained  hundreds  of  men  for 
the  ministry,  for  many  of  whom  it  has  opened  a  way  that 
would  not  else  have  been  found — a  way  that  now  stands 
open  to  thousands  more. 

2.  These  sons  of    our    Northwestern    churches    are 
laboring  at  home  and  abroad,  thereby  giving  the  churches 
a  new  sense  of  their  work,  doing  and  to  be  done,  on  the 
fields  of  Home  and  Foreign  Missions. 

3.  These  churches,  in  becoming  productive  of  a  min- 
istry, are  coming  into  a  more  quickened  sense  of  coopera- 
tion with  the  Master,  enlarging  the  range  of  thought  and 
ennobling  the  aim  of  life. 

4.  In  training  a  ministry,  the  churches  are  coming, 
also,  to  a  rectified  judgment  of  the  qualification  of  minis- 


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ters  for  the  work  and    conflict  in  this  land  and  in  the 
corning  time. 

5.  In  the  organization  of  the  Seminary  a  great  force 
has  heen  established  in  this  Northwest.     There  has  been 
gathered  and  set  at  work  sanctified  Scholarship  of  a  high 
order,  stimulating,  defensive  and  aggressive. 

6.  Through    the    Seminary    are   provided   ways   by 
which  men  of  forecast  and  wealth  can  inaugurate  forces 
which  shall   reach    many  generations  with   quickening, 
moulding  and  sanctifying  power. 


REPORT 


Quarter    Centennial    Fund, 

BY  THE  BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS  TO  THE  TRIENNIAL  CONVENTION, 

AND    ITS    ACTION    THEREON. 


Twenty-five  years  ago  began  the  movement  to  found 
our  Theological  Seminary.  At  the  end  of  this  Quarter 
Century,  we  inquire— "  What  next?  What  aspects  has 
the  work  of  the  Lord,  meantime,  assumed?  What,  in 
consequence,  is  his  word  of  command  to  us? 

Our  field  of  work  lies  within  our  Congregationalism, 
actual  and  possible.  And  to  us  our  Congregationalism 
means,  not  merely  a  polity,  but  a  system  of  doctrines,  an 
historic  faith,  the  entire  gospel,  as  held  by  our  fathers  and 
received  by  their  sons — varied,  but  only  made  more  vital 
and  vigorous  by  the  increasing  light  and  heat  of  the  Sun 
of  Eighteousness  —  a  Congregationalism  embodied  in 
churches  of  spiritually  quickened  membership  and  minis- 
try, with  their  growing  institutions  and  working  forces. 

Our  Theological  Seminary,  in  its  Boards  of  Control, 
Oversight  and  Instruction,  and  in  the  Triennial  Conven- 
tion of  the  Churches,  which  directly  or  indirectly  elects 
these  Boards,  represents  the  Congregationalism  of  these 
Northwestern  States  and  Territories,  twelve  of  them, 
enough  for  a  mighty  empire. 

What  is  our  actual  and  relative  standing  in  the  con- 
crete Congregationalism  of  our  country?  Here  in  this 
vast  territory,  covered  by  the  constituency  of  our  Semin- 


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ary,  is  the  groioing  part  of  our  Congregationalism.     The 
roots  of  our  growth  run  far  to  the  East  and  find  nutri- 
ment -which  we  acknowledge  with  gratitude  and  pride- 
yet  the  actual  growth,  largely  increased  by  such  nutriment, 
is  most  visible  in  this  Northwest. 

Though  of  the  Congregational  church-members  in 
the  United  States  we  have  only  23  per  cent.,  yet  during 
the  year  covered  by  the  statistics  in  the  last  Year  Book, 
we  have  31  per  cent,  in  the  net  gain  of  church  members, 
and  36  per  cent,  of  the  increase  in  Sabbath  school  attend- 
ance. 

This  crescent  state  of  Congregationalism  in  the 
Northwest — the  growing  condition  of  the  work  assigned 
us  by  the  Master — is  still  further  and  more  emphatically 
shown  by  this  fact : — the  net  increase  in  the  number  of 
our  churches  during  the  year  reported  in  the  last  Year 
Book  was  56.  Of  these  new  churches,  10  are  on  the 
Pacific  Slope,  43  on  the  field  covered  by  the  constituency 
of  our  Theological  Seminary,  including  Michigan  on  the 
east  and  Wyoming  on  the  west,  and  only  three  in  the 
remainder  of  the  United  States. 

The  growth  of  Congregationalism — of  our  work — in 
the  Northwest,  is  shown  by  a  broader  fact.  When  25 
years  ago  the  first  steps  were  taken  to  organize  our  The- 
ological Seminary,  there  was  possible  to  it  a  constituency 
of  only  380  Churches,  northwest  from  Ohio.  Now,  after 
a  lapse  of  35  years,  the  Churches  in  the  Northwest  form- 
ing the  constituency  of  our  Seminary  exceed  that  num- 
ber by  more  than  1000. 

Now  why  this  concentration  of  forces  in  these  North- 
western States  by  our  own,  and  correspondingly  by  other 
Christian  churches?  Why  this  swift  execution  in  these 
processes  of  organization?  No  man,  who  both  thinks 
and  prays,  need  search  long  for  an  answer. 


1.  Because  here  are  gathering  immense  forces,  vast 
powers  of  wealth  to  be  developed — agricultural,  commer- 
cial, mining  and  manufacturing — forces  too  vast  for  the 
comprehension  of  any  finite  mind.     God's  claim  to  these, 
to  the  hearts  and  hands  that  wield  them,  these  Christian 
churches  of  all  sorts  must  maintain  and  make  good. 

2.  Because,  slowly  hut  surely,  toward  this  junction 
of  the  Valley  of  the  Lakes  with  the  Valley  of  the  Missis- 
sippi is  moving  the  center  of  the  population  of  the  United 
States. 

3.  Because  here  is  freedom  of  thought,  trammeled 
by  no  traditions,  in  the  churches  or  out ;  insisting  upon 
rehandling  everything,  settled  or  unsettled;  participated 
in  by  many  nationalities  and  schools,  reverent  and  irrev- 
erent. 

The  main  work  assigned  us  by  the  Master  to  do  in 
this  Northwest,  and  for  which  we  need  a  ministry  ade- 
quate in  numbers  and  qualifications,  is  the  evangelization 
which  we  are  carrying  on  in  common  with  other  Chris- 
tian churches.  Yet  we  have,  in  addition  to  this,  a  less 
important,  but  positive  and  characteristic  work.  First. 
To  afford  a  basis  for  church  organization,  on  which  evan- 
gelical Christians  of  various  antecedents  can  readily 
unite — this  by  the  adaptation,  flexibility  and  adequate 
efficiency  of  our  polity,  and  by  holding  the  word  of  God 
as  the  only  authoritative  Eule  of  Faith.  Also,  secondly. 
By  the  freedom  of  utterance  found  in  our  pulpits  and 
in  the  entire  range  of  our  Congregational  literature,  to 
foster  and  conserve  all  that  is  valuable  in  the  freedom  of 
thought,  demanded  and  inevitable  in  this  Northwest. 

To  the  work  of  our  churches  there  are  hindrances. 

1.  The  needful  unfolding  of  the  material  wealth  of 
the  Northwest  has  given  an  intense  aggravation  to  world- 


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liness,  shown  not  only  in  the  push  of  enterprises,  but 
also  in  ruinous  extravagance,  and  in  the  wreck  of  both 
characters  and  fortunes.  Bonanza  kings,  railroad  kings, 
merchant  princes,  lordly  bankers  and  masters  in  manu- 
facture, rule  society,  making  men  satisfied  with  a  pros- 
perity which  neither  betters  humanity,  nor  helps  on  the 
great  ends  for  which  the  ages  continue. 

2.  The  hindrances  become  more  formidable  because 
to  the  dullness  of  carnality  and  the  engrossment  of  world- 
liness  there  is  .added  a  various  infidelity — among  the  edu- 
cated a  scientific  skepticism — among  the  unlettered  the 
gross  infidelity  of  Thomas  Paine — wrestling  again  with 
difficulties  which  well  read  men  know  were  fully  met  100 
years  ago. 

3.  Then    there    is    Communism    in    its    American 
shapes,  young,  but  growing,  and  greedy  of  life,  together 
with  other  evils  of  a  society  that  is  becoming  stratified 
in  a  very  undemocratic  way  and  degree.     This  Commun- 
ism and  its   allied  craft-organizations,  are  likely  to  do 
something  more  than,  as  once,  to  stop  the  railroad  traffic 
of  the  country. 

4.  Sectarianism,  everywhere  a  hindrance,  in  instan- 
ces, not  a  few,  unpeaceably  and  unsafely  dominant. 

Only  the  Gospel,  as  it  ennobles  life  with  its  hopes, 
as  it  tones  society  by  its  individual  regenerations,  shapes 
law  and  vitalizes  human  brotherhood,  can  cure  sectarian- 
ism, and  solve  the  problems,  with  which  Communism  and 
craft- organizations  vainly  struggle.  Only  the  Gospel  can 
make  safe  the  prosperity  of  the  Northwest. 

So,  for  the  work  to  be  done  in  these  Northwestern 
States,  there  is  needed  that  right  hand  of  the  Churches, 
an  educated,  spiritual  and  orthodox  ministry — men,  who 
can  find  a  place  to  work,  or  make  a  place — men,  who  by 


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residence  and  education  in  this  section  of  our  country 
shall  be  in  acquaintance  and  sympathy  with  the  work 
here  to  be  done — men,  abreast  with  the  best  literature  of 
their  age ;  testing  every  moral  question  by  the  infallible 
Word  of  God;  and,  like  Congregational  ministers  from 
the  Plymouth  Rock  days  till  now,  leaders  in  the  think- 
ing of  their  times.  Every  year  the  forces  at  work  for 
good  or  evil  grow  stronger,  so  must  the  pulpit,  or  yield 
to  such  rivals  as  the  platform  and  the  press. 

For  the  training  of  such  a  ministry — for  the  work 
urgent  upon  our  Theological  Seminary — it  needs : 

1.  Completion  in  the   endowment   of   the   present 
Professorships. 

2.  An  endowment  of  the  Professorship  of  New  Tes- 
tament Literature. 

3.  The  completion  of  the  Permanent  General  Fund. 

4.  A  Library  Fund,  large  additions  to  the  Library, 
and  a  fire-proof  Library  Hall. 

5.  Additional  Scholarships: — all  requiring  at  least 
$100,000. 

Your  Committee,  therefore,  could  not  be  true  to 
their  own  convictions,  without  urging  these  Eesolutions : 

1.  That  resting  on  the  merits  of  the  case,  trusting 
in  the  Lord,  and  encouraged  by  the  counsels  and  offers 
already  made,  as  well  as  by  the  hopes  we  entertain,  we, 
as  a  Board  of  Directors  put  in  charge  of  this  important 
Institution,  ask  the  Churches,  in  grateful  recognition  of 
the  work  God  has  already  given  the  Seminary  to  do,  and 
of  its  greater  work  hereafter,  to  increase  its  endowments 
by  raising  a  Quarter  Centennial  Fund  of  at  least  $100,- 
000,  to  be  devoted  to  such  wants  of  the  Seminary  as  the 
donors  of  said  Fund  and  the  Board  of  Directors  shall 
determine. 


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2.  That  this  whole  subject  be  laid  before  the  Trien- 
nial  Convention    about   to   meet,    asking   its   judgment 
thereon. 

3.  That  if  the  Churches  in  Triennial  Convention 
respond  favorably  to  this  request,  the  Board  of  Directors 
devote  their  efforts  assiduously  to  the  work  of  raising 
this  Quarter  Centennial  Fund,  till  it  be  accomplished. 

4.  That  for  the  purpose  of  more  fully  acquainting 
the  Churches  with  the  Seminary,  and  interesting  them 
in  its  work,  an  abstract  of  a  History  of  the  Seminary  to 
date,  be  published  and  distributed,  supplemented  by  this 
Report,   and   such    action   as  the  Triennial    Convention 
may  take. 

A.  S.  KEDZIE,  ") 

E.  W.   BLATCHFOED, 
J.  W.  SCOVILLE,         f 
O.  DAVIDSON,  J 


In  behalf  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  E.  W.  Blatch- 
ford,  Esq.,  presented  the  above  Eeport  accompanying  it 
with  suitable  remarks.  It  was  then  moved  that  the  Re- 
port  be  amended  so  as  to  ask  for  $150,000  instead  of 
$100.000.  After  full  discussion,  both  the  amendment  and 
the  Report  were  unanimously  adopted  by  a  rising  vote., 

May  the  Lord  multiply  those  who  shall  have  power 
to  make  this  Seminary  strong  for  the  work  it  has  to  do 
in  the  future.  May  He  give  them  wisdom  to  see  how  an 
enlargement  of  the  Seminary's  work  will  advance  the 
Kingdom  of  Christ,  at  home  and  abroad.  And  by  their 
liberal  contribution  to  the  Seminary's  strength  may  He 
bring  them  into  fuller  fellowship  with  Him  in  work  for 
the  world's  salvation. 


CHARTER. 


AN  ACT 

TO    INCORPORATE    THE    CHICAGO    THEOLOGICAL    SEMINARY. 


SECTION  1.  He  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  repre- 
sented in  the  General  Assembly,  That  STEPHEN  PEET,  WILLIAM  CARTER, 
FLAVEL  BASCOM,  M.  A.  JEWETT,  GEORGE  W.  PERKINS,  PHILO  CARPENTER, 
TRUMAN  POST,  JOHN  C.  HOLBROOK,  HORACE  HOBART,  JOHN  J.  MITER,  HIRAM 
FOOTE,  JOSEPH  JOHNSTON,  HARVEY  D.  KITCHEL,  ALDEN  B.  BOBBINS,  ADAM 
S.  KEDZIE,  L.  SMITH  HOBART,  NATHANIEL  H.  EGGLESTON,  SOLOMON  L. 
WITHEY,  JESSE  GUERNSEY,  JOSEPH  E.  BEEBE,  CHAS.  W.  CAMP,  JOHN  G. 
FOOTE,  BICHARD  HALL,  GEO.  S.  F.  SAVAGE,  and  their  successors,  be  and 
they  hereby  are  created  a  body  politic  and  corporate,  to  be  styled,  "  The 
Board  of  Directors  of  the  Chicago  Theological  Seminary,"  and  by  that 
name  and  style  to  remain  and  have  perpetual  succession,  with  full  power 
to  sue  and  be  sued,  plead  and  be  impleaded,  to  acquire,  hold  and  convey 
property,  real  and  personal,  to  have  and  use  a  common  seal,  to  alter  and 
renew  the  same  at  pleasure,  to  make  and  alter  a  Constitution  and  By- 
Laws  for  the  conducting  and  government  of  said  Institution,  and  fully  to 
do  whatever  may  be  necessafry  to  carry  out  the  object  of  this  act  of  incor- 
poration. 

SECTION  2.  That  the  Seminary  shall  be  located  in  or  near  the  City  of 
Chicago.  The  object  shall  be  to  furnish  instruction  and  the  means  of 
education  to  young  men  preparing  for  the  Gospel  Ministry,  and  the  In- 
stitution shall  be  equally  open  to  all  denominations  of  Christians  for  this 
purpose. 

SECTION  3.  That  the  Board  of  Directors  shall  consist  of  twenty-four 
members,  nine  of  whom  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of 
business.  The  Directors  shall  hereafter  be  elected  in  accordance  with 
the  provisions  of  the  Constitution  under  which  they  act,  and  shah1  hold 
their  office/ until  their  successors  are  appointed. 


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SECTION  4.  That  the  Board  of  Directors  shall  have  power  to  appoint 
an  Executive  Committee,  and  such  agents  as  they  may  deem  necessary, 
and  such  Officers,  Professors  and  Teachers  as  the  government  and  in- 
struction of  the  Seminary  may  require,  and  prescribe  their  duties;  to 
remove  any  of  them  for  sufficient  reasons,  and  to  prescribe  and  direct 
the  course  of  studies  to  be  pursued  in  the  Institution ;  also  to  confer  such 
degrees  as  are  consistent  with  the  object  of  the  Institution. 

SECTION  5.  That  the  property,  of  whatever  kind  or  description,  be- 
longing or  appertaining  to  said  Seminary,  shall  be  forever  free  and 
exempt  from  all  taxation,  for  all  purposes  whatsoever. 

SECTION  6.  This  act  to  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its 
passage,  and  it  shall  be  deemed  a  public  act,  and  shall  be  construed 
liberally  in  ah1  courts  for  the  purposes  therein  expressed. 

THOS.  J.  TURNER, 

Speaker  of  the  .House  of  Representatives. 
G.  KOERNER, 

Speaker  of  the  Senate. 
APPROVED  February  15,  1855. 

J.  A.  MATTESON. 
UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA,  ) 

r   SS« 
STATE    OF    ILLINOIS.  \ 

I,  ALEXANDER  STARNE,  Secretary  of  State  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  do 
hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  is  a  true  and  correct  copy  of  an  enrolled 
law  now  on  file  in  my  office. 

In  testimony  whereof,  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand 
L.  S.  and  affixed  the  seal  of  said  State,  this  6th  day  of 

March,  A.D.  1855. 

ALEXANDER  STARNE, 

Secretary  of  State. 


ALUMNI. 


NAMES.  GRADUATED.  ORDAINED.  RESIDENCE. 

Abbott,  C.  H 1875  Dec.           1875  Huntley,  111. 

Adams,  William  A 1862  May     18,1862  Deceased. 

Anderson,  David  R 1876  June    15,  1876  Oconomowoc,  Wis. 

Anderson,  Kerr  C 1875  Mov.    11,1873  Oshkosh,  Wis. 

Armstrong,  Julius  C 1874  June    17,1874  Lyonsville,  111. 

Arnold,  Arthur  E 1867  Dec.           1867  Lemars,  la. 

Arnold,  Seth  A 1873  Sept.     8,1873  Wittenberg,  la. 

Allender,  John 1868  Feb.    23,1869  Red  Oak,  la. 

Atkinson,  John  L 1869  Sept.   24,1869  Missionary  to  Japan. 

Atkinson,  William  H 1867  April  18,  1867  Orchard,  la. 

Bailey,  Amos  Judson 1871  Oct.    24,1871  Hennepin,  111. 

Baird,  John  W 1872  May    22,1872  Missionary  to  Bulgaria. 

Baker,  Mons.  Samuel 1879  Northfield,  Minn. 

Baldwin,  David  J 1865  Nov.    10,1865  Sibley,  la. 

Barnard,  Elihu  C 1866  Dec.     1 8,  1866  Moline,  111. 

Barnes,  Charles  M 1859  Sept.   16,1859  Chicago,  111. 

Barnes,  Henry  E 1864  May    28,1864  Haverill,  Mass. 

Barrett,  Edward  N 1870  Nov.   21,1871  Chicago,  111. 

Barrett,  John  F 1877  Dec.    21,1877  Manchester,  la. 

Bascom,  George  S 1870  June    29,1870  Peru,  111. 

Beach,  Edwin  R 1869  Sept.  21,  1869  Longmont,  Colorado. 

Beecher,  Frederick  W 1861  Nov.    12,  1861  Jamestown,  N.  Y. 

Beecher,  George  H 1863  Oct.     26,1864  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Benton.  Ledyard  E 1874  Nov.    19,1874  Crete,  Neb. 

Betts,  Eben  M 1869  Sept.   19,1869  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis. 

Bidwell,  John  B 1874  June    17,1874  Tomah,  Wis. 

Bill,  A.  Wesley 1873  Sept.     9,1873  Menominee,  Mich. 

Bingham,  Charles  M 1870  June    16,1870  Milburn,  111. 

Bisbee,  Marvin  B 1874  Sept.   10,1874  Cambridgeport,   Mass. 

Blake,  Daniel  H 1859  June      9,1859  Deceased. 

Blodgett,  George  D 1861  May      8,  1861  Deceased. 

Bradshaw,  John  W 1874  Oct.     29,1874  Batavia,  111. 

Bray,  William  L 1861  Aug.      8,  1861  Clinton,  la. 

Breckenridge,  Daniel  M 1869  Sept.  21,  1869  Fort  Dodge,  la. 


62 


GRADUATED.  ORDAINKI). 


RESIDENCE. 


Bross,  Harmon 1867     Sept. 

Brobst,  Flavius  J 1879 

Brown,  T.  Lincoln 1873 

Burton,  Nathan  L 1877 

Burt,  Jirah  S 1860 


1863     Crete,  Neb. 

1879     Roberts,  111. 
Sept.     2,  1873     Elkhart,  Ind. 
June     19,  1877     Lamoille,  111. 

North  Weston,  Ind. 


Bush,  Frederick  W 1871      May    16,1871     Alamo,  Midi. 

Butcher,  William  R 1869     June    15,1869     Kokomo,  Ind. 


Campbell,  Gabriel  

1868 

Oct. 

27, 

1868 

Cass,  John  W  

1863 

May 

II, 

1863 

Chamberlin,  James  A  

1879 

1879 

Champlin,  Oliver  P  

1870 

July 

IO, 

1870 

Chase,  Edward  R  

1871 

Cheeny,  Russell  L  

1876 

Oct. 

24, 

1876 

Chittenden,  Albeit  J  

1874 

Clapp,  Cephas  F  

1871 

June 

21, 

1871 

Clark,  William  J  

1869 

Nov. 

19, 

1869 

Clark,  Moulton  L  

1877 

1877 

Codington,  George  S  

1870 

July 

I, 

1870 

Comstock,  D.  W  

1864 

June 

5. 

1861 

Corsbie,  Hadley  M  

1879 

Aug. 

31' 

1876 

Cragin,  Charles  C  

1869 

Feb. 

16, 

1870 

Crawford,  Matthew  A  

1878 

Crawford,  O.  D  

1872 

Nov. 

i, 

1872 

Cross,  W.  H  

1870 

June 

29, 

1870 

Croswell,  Micah  S  

1868 

April 

21, 

1869 

Cruzan,  John  Alexander  

1871 

Sept. 

28, 

1871 

Curtis,  Asher  W  

1868 

July 

2, 

1868 

Curtis,  William  Willis  

i873 

Aug. 

IO, 

1873 

Dada,  Edgar  P  

1864 

July 

I, 

1864 

Daniels,  Henry  M  

1861 

June 

25, 

1861 

Davis,  Jerome  D  

1869 

June 

I, 

1869 

Day,  Warren  F  

1866 

May 

2, 

1866 

Danforth,  James  R  '.  . 

1867 

Jan. 

2, 

1868 

Demarest,  Sidney  B  

1869 

Sept. 

7, 

1869 

Dewey,  Willis  C  

1877 

May 

29, 

1877 

Dickinson,  C.  E  

1863 

June 

2, 

1863 

Dickinson,  Samuel  F  

1869 

June 

9» 

1870 

Dickenson,  William  G  

1873 

June 

24, 

1873 

Dixon,  Julian  Howell  

1871 

Sept. 

6, 

1871 

Douglass,  Francis  J  

1869 

June 

22, 

1869 

Douglas,  Truman  O  

1868 

Oct. 

28, 

1868 

Durham,  Benjamin  (M.  D.)... 

1861 

Durham,  Henry  (M.  D.)  

1863 

Nov. 

3, 

1864 

Duncan,  John  C  

1877 

DeRiemer,  William  E  

1867 

April 

18, 

1867 

East  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Deceased. 
Union  Grove,  Wis. 
Sleepy  Eye,  Minn. 
Deceased. 
Bloomington,  Wis. 
Boulder,  Colorado. 
Prairie  du  Chien,  Wis. 
Okalla,  111. 
Constableville,  N.  Y. 
Deceased. 
Otsego,  Mich. 
Burlington,  Wis. 
McGregor,  la. 
David  City,  Neb. 
West  Bloomfield,  N.  Y. 
Hollister,  Cal. 
Amboy,  111. 
Portland,  Oregon. 
Hastings,  Neb. 
Missionary  to  Japan. 

Mazeppa,  Minn. 
Dallas,  Texas. 
Missionary  to  Japan. 
East  Saginaw,  Mich. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Dart  ford,  Wis. 
Mi-sionary  to  Turkey. 
Elgin,  111. 
Cambridge,  111. 
Shabbona,  111. 
Ridgefield,  111. 
Richmond,  111. 
Osage,  la. 
Chicago,  111. 
Crete,  Neb. 
Tugaloo,  Miss. 
Missionary  to  Ceylon. 


03 


GRADUATED.  ORDAINED. 


RESIDENCE. 


Edgerton,  Foster  E  ..........  Died  just  before  graduating. 

Evans,  Samuel  E  .............  1867  April   18,  1867  Seakonk,  Rhode  Island. 

Fay,  Osmer  W  ...............  1863  July       2,1867  Montgomery,  Ala. 

Feemster,  Paul  S  .............  1867  Nov.    25,1869  Columbus,  Miss. 

Ferner,  John  W  ..............  1876  June    17,1876  Mitchelville,  la. 

Ferris,  Hiram  J  ..............  1876  Sept.     7,  1876  New  Milford,  111. 

Fonda,  Jesse  Lawrence  .......  1873  Sept.    16,1873  Morris,  Minn. 

Fowle,  Hanford  .............  1866  June    13,1866  East  Troy,  Wis. 

Gallagher,  Wm.  Jr  ...........  1874  Dec.       1,1874  Boston,  Mass. 

Gillespie,  Thomas  ...........  1867  Nov.   20,1867  Bristol,  Wisconsin. 

Gilmore,  Daniel  W  ..........  1875  Potosi,  Wisconsin. 

Goodell,  Henry  M  ...........  1874  1876  Newago,  Mich. 

Goodrich,  Edward  P  .........  1870  Oct.        i,  1870  Decatur,  Mich. 

Goodsell,  Dennis  .............  1879  Fergus  Falls,  Minn. 

Granger,  John  S  .............  1866  July     12,  1866  Granville,  111. 

Guild,  Rufus  B  ..............  1864  Nov.      3,1864  Seneca,  Kan. 

Guyton,  Jacob  F  .............  1869  Aug.    24,1869  Evanston,  111. 

Hall,  Martin  S  ..............  1871  June    15,  1871  Lawn  Ridge,  111. 

Hand,  Laroy  S  ..............  1868  June    1  8,  1868  Ogden,  la. 

Harbaugh,  Hiram  Wallace  ...  1879  Pecatonica,  111. 

Hardy,  Vitellas  M  ...........  1869  Jan.     31,1872  West  Randolph,  Vt. 

Harrah,  Charles  C  ...........  1870  Aug.      3,1870  Galva,  111. 

Harrison,  James  .............  1868  Dec.    17,1868  Wisconsin. 

Harvey,  Charles  A  ...........  1861  June    20,  1861  Middletown,  N.  Y. 

Hancock,  Charles  (M.  D.)  ----  1861  June      5,1861  Alden,  Iowa. 

Hibbard,  Charles  ............  1869  Sept.  21,  1869  Fairmount,  Neb. 

Higley,  George  T  ............  1861  May    31,1861  Ashland,  Mass. 

Hildreth,  Edward  ...........  1861  Dec.    30,1862  Chicago,  111. 

Hill,  Dexter  D  ..............  1869  June      1,1869  Aurora,  111. 

Hinckley,  William  H  .........  1877  Dec.    20,1876  Racine,  Wis. 

Holcombe,  Gilbert  T  .........  1875  June    22,1875  California. 

Holbrook,  David  L.»  ........  1877  July     19,1877  Geneva,  Wis. 

Hooker,  Edward  T  ..........  1867  June    17,1868  Castleton,  Vt. 

Humphrey.  C.  C  .............  1861  June      6,  1861  Osceola,  Neb. 

Hughes,  Isaac  Collstr  ........  1873  Sept.   21,1873  Columbus  City,  la. 

Hurd,  Alva  Ansel  ...........  1871  Mar.    21,1871  Scotland,  Conn. 

Jacobs,  Henry  ...............  1870  Sept.  22,1870  Wayne  Center,  111. 

Jagger,  Edward  L  .............  1861  Mar.      6,  1862  Bristol,  N.  H. 

Jones,  David  D  ..............  1875  Minnesota. 

Jones,  Lemuel  ..............  1864  April  20,1865  Englewood,  N.  J. 

Keen,  Lyman  S  ..........  ___  .  1879  Wauponsie  Grove,  111. 

Kirk,  Robert  ...........  .....  1874  Sept.          1874  Springfield,  Dakota. 

Knobel,  Godfrey  C  ...........  1875  April   11,1875  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


64 


GRADUATED. 


RESIDENCE. 


Landon,  George  M 1868  1868     Monroe,  Mich. 

Lathrop,  Stanley  E 1870     Dec.    21,1870     Macon,  Ga. 

Lewis,  Edwin  N 1862     Oct.     14,1862     Ottawa,  111. 


Marsh,  Charles  E 1867 

Marsh,  George  Daniel 1871 

Matson,  Albert 1871 

May,  Oscar  G 1870 

McArthur,  H.  G 1859, 

McCulloch,  Oscar  C 1870 

Merrill,  Chas.  Wilber 1873 

Millard,  Watson  B 1874 

Miller,  Richard 1873 

Millerd,  Norman  A 1862 

Mills,  Harlow  S 1877 

Mirick,  Edward  A 1869 

Montgomery,  John  A 1866 

Morrill,  Stephen  S 1859 

Nelson,  Geo.  William 1873 

Norcross,  Lanson  P 1869 

Northcott,  Theodore  C 1875 

Norton,  Frank  B 1864 

Noyes,  Mortimer  L.  S 1871 

Oakley,  James 1875 

Paddock,  George  A 1868 

Parker,  Homer  Joseph 1873 

Parker,  John  D 1865 

Philips,  Wm.  Irving 1876 

Pinkerton,  Myron  W 1871 

Putnam,  Samuel  P 1868 

Reed,  Charles  Francis 1873 

Reed,  Myron  W 1866 

Rice,  Augustus  M 1873 

Richards,  J.  P 1861 

Riggs,  Alfred  L 1862 

Riggs,  T.  L 1872 

Rindell,  Gilbert,  Jr 1874 

Robbins,  H.  H 1874 

Rogers,  Charles  H 1877 

Root,  Barnabas  Walker 1873 


Oct.     13,  1868 
July  1872 


June 

Aug. 

Oct. 

Oct. 

June 

Dec. 

June 

June 

Sept. 

June 

May 


21,  1870 

25,  1859 
19,  1870 
29,  1873 

1 8,  1874 
23,  1873 
27,  1862 

S»  l877 

19,  1869 
15,  1866 

12,   1859 


Sept.  9,  1873 

Jan.  26,  1870 

May  13,  1875 

July  12,  1864 


Summer  Hill,  111. 
Missionary  to  Bulgaria. 
Salina,  Kan. 
Fulton,  Wis. 
Beloit,  Wis. 
Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Spring  Valley,  Minn. 
Dundee,  111. 
Calumet,  Mich. 
Chicago,  111. 
Dunlap,  Iowa. 
Neodesha,  Kan. 
Mori  is,  111. 
Deceased. 

Wauwatosa,  Wis. 
Deadwood,  Wyo.  Terr. 
Faribault,  Minn. 
Oshkosh,  Wis. 
Deceased  Nov.  14,  1872. 


Oct.  31,  1875  Ridgefield,  111. 

Aug.  20,  1868  Deceased. 

Sept.  16,  1873  Bay  City,  Mich. 

Aug.  16,  1865  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Sept.  i,  1876  College  Springs,  la. 

Aug.  1871  Missionary  to  South  Africa. 
Ohio. 


June  i,  1874 

July  10,  1866 

Oct.  31,  1861 

Nov.  4,  1863 

Jan.  17,  1873 

Nov.  1874 

July  29,  1874 

July,  11,  1877 
1874 


Nov. 


Safford,  Albert  Walker 1871  Aug.  2,1872 

Samuel,  Robert 1859  Nov.  3,1859 

Sanders,  Clarendon  M 1867  April  19,  1867 

Sargent,  Moses  F 1879 

Shinn,  Robert  F 1865  Sept.  14,  1868 


Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Little  Compton,  R.  I. 

Bowensburg,  111. 

Miss'y  Santee  Agency,  Neb. 

Miss'y  Ft.  Sully,  Dakota. 

Plymouth,  Wis. 

Postville,  la. 

Lansing,  la. 

Deceased. 

Vermont. 

Cawker  City,  Kan. 
Cheyenne,  Wyo.  Terr. 
Winnebugo,  111. 
Chicago,  111. 


65 


NAMES.  GRADUATED.  ORDAINED.  RESIDENCE. 

Shirrill,  Dana 1873  June  24,1873     Forest,   111. 

Simmons,  H.  C 1872  May  8,  1872  Marshall,  Minn. 

Skeels,  Henry  M 1876  June  29,1876  Turner,  111. 

Skentlebury,  Wm.  H 1873  July  7,1875     Wacousta,  Mich. 

Smith,  Andrew  J 1874  July  1,1874  Neosho,  Mo. 

Smith,  Augustine  T 1866  Deceased. 

Smith,  Emerson  F 1875  Wellsville,  Kan. 

Smith,  Frederick  H 1877  Crookston,  Minn. 

Smith,  James  F 1873  Mav  6'  l873  Crete,  111. 

Smith,  George 1867  Jan.  20,1868  Whitewater,  Wis. 

Smith,  Orville  S 1874  Nov.  4,1874  Hartland,  Wis. 

Smith,  Simon  P 1879  Marietta,  Ga. 

Storm,  Julius  E 1875  June  9,1875  Princeton,  Minn. 

Stratton,  Samuel  F 1868  Sept,  24,1868     Downer's  Grove,  111. 

Sveinbjorson,  Arnabjarni 1878  Reykjarvik,  Iceland. 

Tade,  Ewing  0 1861  Sept.  4,1861  Fidalgo,  Wash.  Ter. 

Taylor,  John  G 1872  Jan.  9,1873  Melrose,  Mass. 

Thain,  Alexander  R 1870  Oct.  17,1870  Galesburg,  111. 

Thayer,  Carmi  C 1867  April  18,1867  Maywood,  111. 

Tibbitts,  Dallas  David 1873  Blackberry,  111. 

Todd,  Quintus  C 1879  Corning,  la. 

Tompkins,  James 1867  April  24,1867  Chicago,  111. 

Towle,  Charles  A 1869  May  29,1869  Chicago,  111. 

Tuttle,  Hanson  Eascom 1873  Jan.  20,1874  Worthington,  Minn. 

Van  Noorden,  Emmanuel 1871  Oct.  1873  Miss'y  to  Buenos  Ayres,  S.  A. 

Van  Wagner,  Allen  J 1873  Oct.  23,1873  Elmwood,  111. 

Volentine,  Thomas  J 1870  Oct.  13,  1870  Webster's  Grove,  Mo. 

Wainwright,  G.  W 1862  May  27,1862  Raymond,  Wis. 

Waterman,  William  A 1867  Feb.  13,  1868  Marion,  la. 

Waterman,  H.  B 1869  June  1869  Moline,  111. 

Webb,  Stephen  W 1869  April  19,  1870  Great  Falls,  N.  H. 

Wells,  George  H 1867  Oct.  1,1867  Montreal,  Canada. 

Wells,  Spencer  R 1867  April  18,  1867  Miss'y  Armednugger,  India. 

West,  Lester  L 1878  Nov.  13,1878  Fort  Dodge,  la. 

Wheeler,  Charles  H 1867  1867  Ohio. 

Wheeler,  Frederick 1861  Feb.  18,1862  Hoylton.  111. 

Wiard,  H.  De  Forrest   1878  Nov.  u,  1873  Eaclville,  111. 

Wilcox,  Seth  M 1875  Dec.  1875  Griggsville,  111. 

Williams,  Edward  M 1868  Feb.  25,1869  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Willett,  Mahlon 1873  June  4,1873  San  Jose,  Cal. 

Wilson,  Henry 1876  Jan.  4,  1877  Wyanet,  111. 

Wright,  Eugene  F 1876  Nov.  1875  Seward,  III. 

Vates,  Thomas 1872  Sept.  1,1874  Shultzburg,  Mass. 


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E.  W.  BLATCHFORD,  ESQ.,  President  ...................  .  .  .Chicago. 

REV.  T.  M.  POST.  D.  ])..   Pice-President  .................................  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

RKV.  G.  S.  F.  SAVAGE,  D.  D.,  Secrctnnj  ......................................  Chicago. 

CLASS  I.—  Term  of    Office  Expires  in    1882. 

REV.  A.  S.  KEDZIE  ...................................................  St.  Joseph,  Mich. 

REV.  N.  A.  HYDE,  D.  D.,  .............................................  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

REV.  F.  BASCOM,  D.  D  ...................................................  Hinsdale,  111. 

REV.  E.  P.  GOODWIN,  D.  D  ....................................................  Chicago. 

REV.  G.  S.  F.  SAVAGE,  D.  D  .................................................. 

E.  W.  BLATCHFORD,  ESQ  ..................................................... 

J.  W.  SCOVILLE,  ESQ  ....................................................  Oak  Park,  111. 

REV.  A.  L.  CHAPIN,  D.  D  ...................................................  Beloit,  Wis. 

REV.  H.  T.  ROSE  .......................................................  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

J.  H.  MERRILL,  ESQ  ................................................  Des  Moines,  Iowa. 

REV.  H.  N.  GATES  .........................................................  Omaha,  Neb. 

REV.  PETER  M.  VICKER,  D.  D  ..........................................  Topeka,  Kan. 

CLASS  II.—  Term  of   Office  Expires   1885. 

REV.  O.  C.  THOMPSON  ..................................................  Detroit,  Mich. 

REV.  W.  F.  DAY  ...................................................  East  Saginaw,  Midi. 

R.  G.  PETERS,  ESQ  .....................................................  Manistee,  Mich. 

C.  G.  HAMMOND,  ESQ  .....................................................  Chicago,  111. 

L.  G.  FISHER,  ESQ  ......................................................... 

O.  DAVIDSON,  ESQ,  ...........................................................  Elgin,  III. 

REV.  C.  W.  CAMP  ......................................................  Waukesha,  Wis. 

REV.  A.  B.  ROBBINS,  D.  D  ...........................................  Muscatine,  Iowa. 

REV.  G.  F.  MAGOUN,  D.  D  ..............................................  Grinnell,  Iowa. 

J.  G.  FOOTE,  ESQ  .....................................................  Burlington,  Iowa. 

REV.  J.  W.  STRONG,  D.  D  ............................................  Northfield,  Minn. 

REV.  T.  M.  POST,  D.  D  ..................................................   St.  Louis,  Mo. 


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E.  W.  BLATCHFORD,  ESQ.  RKV.  E.  P.  GOODWIN,  D.  D. 

REV.  F.  BASCOM,  D.  D.  L.  G.  FISHER,  ESQ. 

O.  DAVIDSON,  ESQ. 


CLASS  I.  —Term  of   Office  Expires  18*2. 
REV.  J.  W.  BRADSHAW  ...................................................  Batavia,  111. 

REV.  E.  M.  WILLIAMS  ..............................................  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

REV.  J.  G.  MERRILL  .................................................  Davenport,  Iowa. 

REV.  D.  L.  HOLBROOK  ...................................................  Geneva,  Wis. 

CLASS   I!.—  Term  of  Office  Expires  1885. 
PKES.  JAMES  B.  ANGELL,  LL.  D..  .  ..  ................................  Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 

REV    G.  T.  LADD  ......................................................  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

RF.V.  E.  F.  WILLIAMS  .......................................  .  .............  Chicago,  111. 

REV.  E.  KENT  ......................................................  Michigan  City,  Ind. 


LYMAN  BAIRD,  ESQ  .......................................................  Chicago,  111. 

C.  F.  GATES,  ESQ  .......................................................... 

GEO.  CULVER,  ESQ  ........................................................ 


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